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The Random Facts Thread

Postby . on Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:20 am

There are alot of facts out there, which make no sense, are funny, amazing or whatever....post some

- Every half hour, somebody in the USA dies from gunshot wounds
- Every 6 seconds, a car crashes
- The factories where computer chips are created are 100 times cleaner than a surgical operating room (dont know how they made 100 times a fact....but still)
- The size of your foot is the same as the lengt between your wrist to your elbow.
- In Canada it's illegal to pay for a 50 cents Item only with pennies
- The average male thinks about sex at least 100 times a day.
- A polar bears skin is black
- Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
- Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
- Other than humans...dolphins are the only other animals that have sex for fun.
- When you blush the insides of your stomach turn red
- Babies are born with no knee caps. They dont begin to form untill they are 2-6 years old.
- You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206
- In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
- A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.
- You can live longer without eating than without sleeping. Most humans can last several weeks without food but only about ten days without sleep.
- The average person has 1460 dreams a year.
- If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
-The average American walks 18,000 steps a day.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
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Postby Guest on Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:47 am

:idea: I have always loved this ""Emoticon"", not enough people use it#

The game of chess is like a sword fight, you must think 1st, before you move.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

THC is the secret cure for all strands of cancer, In studies cannabinoids significantly reduced the activity of VEGF in laboratory mice. They also lowered VEGF levels in tumour tissue samples taken from two patients with glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal brain tumour type.

50% of all violent crime in the UK is from alchohal abuse.

Illegal drugs markets are the only free enterprises left on earth**.

We are all imprisoned by our own *greed.


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Postby Old School Fool on Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:55 am

Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.


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My Birthday is when Live 2005 is released.

Muggsy Bogues can Dunk.

I swear to god Rick James had one testicle... :lol: Joking.

Some Movie Director wants to make a Movie Chronicling RICK JAMES< and he thought of DAVE CHAPPELLE DOING RICK JAMES! :shock:

There is no Best Patcher Award on the NLSC.
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Postby Jackal on Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:12 am

Old School Fool wrote:There is no Best Patcher Award on the NLSC.


We thought about it quite a bit & came to the conclusion of not adding that one. Reasons are known, categories like that haven't gelled all that well.

Every patchers work is A+ work to different people.
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Postby ATTENTIONWHORE on Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:10 am

I have 2 nipples.
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Postby Bill Russell on Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:12 am

Here's a random fact...

A research found that the average American person has a 2% chance of having a more dilated anus than porn stars such as Jenna Jamison...
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Postby BIG GREEN on Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:14 am

and research shows that tales has 100% chance of having more dilated anus than mine.
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Postby Bill Russell on Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:26 am

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Postby BIG GREEN on Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:29 am

:P
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Postby Colin on Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:44 pm

3 Years ago a scientist took sample of 11 places in the office. The most contaminated place was a desktop, with an average of 25,000+ germs per square inch, next a phone with 20,000+. The cleanest? A toilet seat with only 49. Weird.
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Postby Big-D on Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:50 pm

heres an interesting and gross fact.
9/10 people piss in the shower.
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Postby J@3 on Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:24 pm

-The average American walks 18,000 steps a day.


I think that would be significantly more for the less obese nations among us :twisted:
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Postby MikeBibby on Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:52 pm

i bet 99.9% of those facts are fake
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Postby Andrew on Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:40 pm

Funny you mentioned this. I found a book recently ("That Book") full of useless trivia and facts. A few of the facts in That Book were mentioned in the first post, but here's a few others that I remember:
  • The elephant is the only other animal that can stand on its head
  • The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump
  • Any month that begins on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th
  • A couple of anagrams:
    Clint Eastwood becomes "Old West Action"
    Princess Diana becomes "Ascend in Paris"
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Postby Rens on Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:42 pm

Andrew wrote:Princess Diana becomes "Ascend in Paris"

That's nice but it's not her name ;)
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Postby Andrew on Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:52 pm

I guess it was better than anything they could make out of Diana Spencer. ;)
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Postby Rens on Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:06 pm

Andrew wrote:I guess it was better than anything they could make out of Diana Spencer. ;)

a cade spinner?
a caned sniper?
canaries pend?
caesar pinned?
sincere panda?
epic NASA nerd?

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Postby Colin on Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:08 pm

MikeBibby wrote:i bet 99.9% of those facts are fake
Mine is true, came from a newspaper. The only ones I doubt are andres's shower fact, Tales anus thing (because Tales is a joker and why the hell would they research that, let alone be able to...um..."gather information"), the decapitation thing, and sleeping in a cold room gives you bad dreams. I've heard a lot of the others before.
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Postby Andrew on Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:10 pm

Rens wrote:
Andrew wrote:I guess it was better than anything they could make out of Diana Spencer. ;)

a cade spinner?
a caned sniper?
canaries pend?
caesar pinned?
sincere panda?
epic NASA nerd?

:D


Then again, maybe not. :) "Ascend in Paris" is certainly more ironic though.
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Postby Nick on Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:27 pm

Random fact:
It's Nick's birthday today. :D
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Postby hmm on Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:50 pm

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Postby BIG GREEN on Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:54 pm

Nick wrote:Random fact:
It's Nick's birthday today. :D


Random fact :

No one cares

J/k :D

ok here's another one..

Random fact:

Nick just turned 12 :P

i kid...i kidddd. Nick is a great guy...for me to poop on!

Happy birthday mate! :)
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Postby Nick on Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:01 pm

Hehe thx mate :)
Nick just turned 12

i kid...i kidddd. Nick is a great guy...for me to poop on!

No no, i kid. I just turned twelve - LMFAO!!! How funny am i :x
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Postby . on Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:08 am

- Mosquitos have forty-seven teeth.
- Horses can sleep standing up.
- Average speed of Heinz ketchup from the mouth of an opened bottle: 25 miles per year.
- A boa constrictor can live a year without eating.
- The world record for most free throws made consecutively is over 11,000.
- When Hitler's mother was pregnant with him, her doctor convinced her NOT to have an abortion.
- The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
- It is physically impossible to lick your elbow. (dont try it when you read it, you will fail)
- A person will spend an average of 1 year looking for lost objects before they die.
- A blue whale uses 300 gallons of semen during sex... 80% ends up in the water.
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Postby ATTENTIONWHORE on Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:18 am


- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American flag.
-Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
-All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
-No word in the English language rhymes with month.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
-Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
-The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
-The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture
element.'
-Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal
category.
-Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
-The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen
rows.
-The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
-Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that
tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint
plant call Diamond Star.
-On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of
Independence Hall is 4:10.
-All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.
-Almonds are members of the peach family.
-If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total
is 5050
-The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
-The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded
into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it
got "the whole 9 yards."
-The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
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