Little known 'Did you know' facts
Weird facts that you would rather not know....
Did you know?...there are actually two types of humans? The slightly larger and less intelligent kind, males, have protruding external genitalia called "penises" that are used for making important life decisions. Meanwhile, females have these nifty things called "vaginas" that no one understands yet, especially males
Did you know?... In 1879, a mail service in Belgium employed 37 cats to carry bundles of letters to villages around the town of Liege, this experiment was shorted-lived as the cats proved thoroughly undisciplined. Just plain weird...even by my standards.
Did you know?... The greatest recorded number of children that have been born by one mother is 69! The poor lass gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and a measly 4 sets of quadruplets. Even in the days before IVF!
Did you know?...Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds
Did you know?...If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in celcius degrees... How do they know that?
Did you know?...Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes. Eeewwwwww
Did you know?...Hydrogen is an explosive gas. Oxygen supports combustion. Yet when these are combined it is water which is used to put out fires.
Did you know?...Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo he was also impotent. Bwahahahahahaha!
Did you know?...The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways-
1. Leeuwaarden
2. Leewaarden
3. Leewarden
4. Leuwarden
5. leuwaardenn
6. Leuuwarrden......
224. Bradford
Did you know?...Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Go on, try it then
Did you know?...The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
Did you know?...Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Did you know?...Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
Did you know?...It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Did you know?...If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Did you know?...Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground its rib cage absorbs most of the impact
Did you know?...A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Did you know?...101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die during the movie.
Did you know?...To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
Did you know?...You're most likely to win the National Lottery (UK) if you buy your ticket on a saturday rather than a wednesday. Because you are more likey to die before the number draw than win.
Did you know?... In York, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow (except on Sundays)
Did you know?...In the state of Minnesota, citizens may not enter Wisconsin with a chicken on their head
Did you know?...In Texas, a recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed. Only in Texas....
Did you know?...No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
Did you know?...The people who make school kitchens, also make electric chairs.
Did you know?...The female preying mantis devours her partner while they're mating or she might rip his head off before because he cannot 'perform' with his head is attached to his body.
Did you know?...Polar bear livers are poisonous because they contain too much vitamin C
Did you know?...A cockroach will live nine days without it's head before it starves to death
Did you know?...1 in every 200 people are a psychopath and they look just like everyone else......
Did you know?...In New Zealand, there are four sheep to every man, woman and child
Did you know?... All the chemicals in the human body have a combined value of approximately £4.00 (6.25 Euro)
Did you know?...In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. However, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited. But would you ever wake up a big hungry bear? I think not!
Did you know?...You are most likely to be murdered or raped by a family member or a close friend (98% of all murders). Whereas being murdered by a derranged lunatic down a dark alley is very rare.
Did you know?...Sharks never get sick, they are immune to all known diseases.
Did you know?...Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year
Did you know?...It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open? Next time you feel a sneeze coming try it!
Did you know?...The expression "to get fired" comes from long, long ago. When clans wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down.
Did you know?...The word 'corr' actually means 'odd' in Irish.
Did you know?...A study conducted in Germany appears to show listening to loud rock music causes homosexuality in rats. Why hell did they conduct a study into that?
Did you know?...The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people !
Did you know?... Channel 4's Ali G's favourite chatchprase "Boyakasha" actually translates to "Death to all white people." And Ali G is, in fact, white.
Did you know?... Sticking your two middle fingers up dates back from the middles ages. When archers were caught they had their two middle fingers cut of so that they couldn't shoot any more arrows. So when an archer was shooting people he would stick his fingers up to say "look I still have them, "hahaha".
Did you know?... In some eastern European countries shaking your head means "yes". Whereas nodding your head means "no"
Did you know?...December is the most popular time for Conception.
Did you know?...In some countries if the girls are raped they are encouraged to kill themselves and if they refuse their families are legally allowed to murder them so that they do not disgrace the family name by not being a virgin when they are married
Did you know?...In some Asian countries when a family had a baby girl they were left to die becasue it was thought that it was more dignified to give birth to a baby boy and now there are five boys for every girl because of it
Did you know?...Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
(Some places are really fucked up I am glad I live in a civilised nation)
Did you know?...This is why I hate Barbie. If she was of real life size, this is what her portions would be-
Height: 7ft 2 inches (average woman: 5ft 5in)
Neck: Twice the size of a normal human female which would make it very unable to support the weight of her head.
Boobs: 39 inches (or approximately an FF cup)
Waist: 18 inches (which is only possible if you remove 2 ribs and carry both kidneys around in a bag)
Hips: 33 inches
Shoe Size: 5
Also Ken and Barbie are brother and sister!
Did you know?...In some American states it is illegal to have sex with a dead fish! What about the live ones then? And the other question is how?
Did you know?...Modern records do not compare with that of St Simeon the younger (C AD 521-97) called stylites a monk who spent the final 45 years of his life living at the top of a stone pillar on the hill of wonders near Antioch in Syria! What the fuck?.....
Did you know?...14% of all facts and statisticts are made up and 27% of people know that fact.
Did you know?...Contray to the phrase "sweating like a pig", pigs cant actually sweat
Did you know?...Eskimos have over 15 words for the english word of 'Snow'
Did you know?...A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Did you know?...In Utah, birds have the right of way on all highways.
Did you know?...The groundhog is only accurate in predicting the weather 28% of the time.
Did you know?...To survive, every bird must eat at least half its own weight in food each day.
Did you know?...All porcupines float in water.
Did you know?... Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Did you know?...Apart from humans, certain species of chimpanzee are the only animals to experiment sexually. They have been known to 'wife swap' and indulge in group sex. Kinky!
Did you know?...Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
Did you know?... You are most likely to get murdered at Christmas time due to more alcohol being drunk. Merry Christmas.
Did you know?...Contray to popular belief, the British flag is not called "The Union Jack" its actually called "The Union Flag". Its only called the Union Jack when out at sea on navy ships
Did you know?...An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.
Did you know?...Bill "Four eyes" Gates has enough money to buy every house in Alaska, greedy bastard!
Did you know?...In France, a five year old child can buy an alcholic drink in a bar
Did you know?...An average western shit contains more vitamins and goodness than what an average third-world child eats in a week from food
Did you know?...Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Did you know?...Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.... each
Did you know?...Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Did you know?...The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Did you know?...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.
Did you know?...TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Did you know?...The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
Did you know?..."Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Did you know?...The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
Did you know?...The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
Did you know?...The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Did you know?...You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you cant pick your friends nose.
Did you know?...On average, 90% Dutch teenagers can speak fluent English whereas only 80% American teenagers can speak fluent English. (Just incase you didnt know, English is not the first langauge of The Netherlands.)
Did you know?...Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Did you know?...On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament buildings is an American flag.
Did you know?...Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Did you know?...Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". In English this means 'The City of Angels'
Did you know?... In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Did you know?... An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Did you know?... A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Did you know?...The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Did you know?...Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus
Did you know?... The Eiffel Tower in Paris weighs over 1000 elephants.
Did you know?...Did you know that penguins can jump six feet in the air.
Did you know?...Coca-Cola was originally green.
Did you know?... Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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