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I think we should have a cool facts thread for the hell of it  :lol:

i'll start, its impossible to flip a ruler in the air and have it land on its opposite side.

so for example you have it in your hand and the ruler side is up (inches and stuff) throw it in the air to try and flip it to the backside, it won't work  :lol:

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cool!

Did you know Shut up Kid can't Shut up?

so for example he's on the forums or Irc, he keeps talking and no one can stop him  :lol:

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It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.

By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.

On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Rats and horses can't vomit.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Cats urine glows under a black light.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.

It is imPOSSIBLE to lick your elbow.

A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

A shrimp's heart is in their head.

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.

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 (or attempted to do so).

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1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.

166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.

27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."

315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.

5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.

56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.

7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.

85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.

99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.

A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

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

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.   THIS ONES FOR YOU STEROIDS

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!

A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.

A whale's penis is called a dork.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

All porcupines float in water.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo. AND THIS ONE STEROIDS

Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

Bubble gum contains rubber.

Camel's milk does not curdle.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.

Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

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

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

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For you pigs out there

A pig can run a 7 minute mile.

The scream of a frightened pig can measure 115 decibels.

A female pig is called a sow, while the male is called boar. The baby of a pig is called piglet.

A full grown pig can drink up to 14 gallons of water a day.

Pigs are also fantastic swimmers, which is quite surprising considering the structure of their bodies.

The most amount of piglets born in a single litter was 34.

Pigs are the only mammals that exist in every part of the world.

Pigs can live up to 15 years they have an acute sense of smell, excellent hearing and eyesight.

Eight major pig breeds are commonly used for breeding in the United States:Berkshire, Duroc, Hampshire, Poland China, Spot, Chester White, Landrance, and Yorkshire.

A pig can’t look up at the sky.

Pigs don’t sweat.

Pigs are often regarded by scientists as being the most intelligent of livestock.

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The door at 10 Downing Street can only be opened from the inside.

Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and failed to even make the final.

The Argentine Lake Duck's penis can grow to 42.5cm long. That's almost as big as the bird itself.

Geniophobia is the fear of chins.

The Eiffel Tower can grow as much as 15cm on a sunny day as the metal expands in the heat.

You can get odds of 500/1 on David Walliams to replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond.

Nuts back page = Pub Ammo.

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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(intense workout is intense)

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

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times

Walt Disney was afraid of mice

Pearls melt in vinegar

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

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@Daft darkbow, Snooki is from New York.

He means the only one whose family isn't Italian, her parents[adoptive parents] are Italian, none of them are actually from Italy lol

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