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.
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).
Some un/interesting FACTS
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Re: Some un/interesting FACTS
Interesting read, but how many of these facts are true? The duck quacks one is an urban myth (see Mythbusters), so I wonder how many others are?
Re: Some un/interesting FACTS
Probably most of them. E.g., 'People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.' is codswallop a) because it has been the custom from centuries before it was possible to measure a ms, b) legend has it that it dates from the Black Death because sneezing was the first symptom of the plague.
Maybe we should have a competition to find out how many are factual
Re: Some un/interesting FACTS
Shrimp's heart is behind its stomach http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nMKgHFDTdUU/T ... natomi.jpg
Re: Some un/interesting FACTS
SNOPES:
Claim: Heinz marketed swastika-shaped pasta in Germany before and during World War II.
FALSE
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001]
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
Origins: You know, so much of the stuff that people send around the Internet is totally bogus. Even a lot of the things on lists of Amazing Facts aren’t really “facts” because they’re wrong — it’s like somebody just makes this stuff up or something
Claim: Heinz marketed swastika-shaped pasta in Germany before and during World War II.
FALSE
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001]
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
Origins: You know, so much of the stuff that people send around the Internet is totally bogus. Even a lot of the things on lists of Amazing Facts aren’t really “facts” because they’re wrong — it’s like somebody just makes this stuff up or something
Re: Some un/interesting FACTS
Why wouldn't they echo? Wouldn't it would be fairly easy to prove, too?
