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Strange Facts!View Messages“Ok guys I thought about doing something kinda fun I have a book on strange but true facts so I am gonna try to post one everyday if I can remember.” 2:21:57 PM 1/14/02 1/14/02 “If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!” 2:22:18 PM 1/14/02 Strange Fact “Strangers die everyday.” 2:25:11 PM 1/14/02 “"If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!".... not if you multiply.” 2:30:47 PM 1/14/02 “24 cans in a case of beer. 24 hours in a day. Coincidence?” 2:43:07 PM 1/14/02 In America “...a woman has a baby every 16 seconds. We must find this woman and STOP HER!” 2:52:42 PM 1/14/02 “LOL gojo....:0” 3:22:09 PM 1/14/02 Grabs aint got no butt! “And they aint got no hed neither! They jest got leetle legs and BIG grabbers and ey balls on leetle things that stik up. Ther hole boddy smells like stinky ded trowt butts. I seen a grab in Flowerda and sayed "wher is yer stinky butt so I can smell it" and he sayed "if you try to smell my stinky butt I will grab off yer ey balls with my grabbers". and I sayed "oh yeah? I will bite off yer hed!" then I sayed "wher is yer hed?" BOL! o-:3” 3:24:51 PM 1/14/02 “We have a talking dog on TT...that's pretty strange.” 3:33:43 PM 1/14/02 “No, its not strange. Its cool!” 3:58:58 PM 1/14/02 “What's just a *little* bit different is that Sarabelle seems to have graduated from the Joel Chandler Harris School Of Canine Obedience. An' Br'er Fox, he lay low.” 4:10:18 PM 1/14/02 A SKEERY FOX BARE?! o-8= “Oh my goodys! Is a skerry fox bare like skeery woof bares? /o:3” 4:23:11 PM 1/14/02 “Well... yes and no... Just watch out for critters who might wear a top hat and waistcoat, and carry a cane... even if it's Halloween.” 4:55:08 PM 1/14/02 “oh yea.. no doubt.. sarabeele is the kewlest post on here ALWAYS.. luv to read what she has to say. !!” 5:28:15 PM 1/14/02 “clams can reach a weight of 500 lbs” 5:31:11 PM 1/14/02 “The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows! Most lipstick contains fish scales! Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing! One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen! It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis! The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum! No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half! A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein! Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building! If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion! Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive! A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth! The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth! Clinophobia is the fear of beds! One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet! America once issued a 5-cent bill! You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow! Here are some people with strange names. (some of these specific facts have not been verified) Ure A. Pigg (Portland, Oregon)! Ima Hogg (Houston, Texas)! Ima June Bugg (Chicago, IL)! Eura Fisch (Charlotte N.C)! Ima Fisch (Charlotte N.C)! menna pause (Indianapolis,indiana! Serious Misconduct (Welwyn, England)! General Error (Pueblo, Colorado)! Dr. Safety First (Tulsa, Oklahoma)! Pearl Harbor (Birmingham, Alabama)! Honor Roll (Birmingham, Alabama)! E. Pluribus Eubanks (San Francisco, CA)! Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings! Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung! A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow! A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying! Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997) 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S! 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S! 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways! 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S! 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year! Bats always turn left when exiting a cave! The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head! In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs! The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used! There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year! The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'! Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?! The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven! Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints! Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow! Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings! Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight! A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though! The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons! The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people! A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court! After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!” 9:06:31 AM 1/15/02 “LOL Gordon, that's the good kind of math!” 9:14:30 AM 1/15/02 “"It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!" so THAT's what i was ticketed for!” 9:33:36 AM 1/15/02 “"A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!" Another interesting fact, most giraffes are jealous of Gene Simmons' tongue.” 9:40:37 AM 1/15/02 “A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. No worries here. He said "hard working".” 10:05:20 AM 1/15/02 “Phew! Dodged that bullet!” 10:06:11 AM 1/15/02 “Here's one for ya, Cold carbonated beverages taste colder then non cabonated beverages at the same temp. That is what makes them refreshing. They accopmlish this because an enzyme in you saliva converts dissolved CO2 into carbonic acid. The pain associated with carbonic acid on the tongue is simmilar to the sensation of cold on your tongue. You know how Barques has bite? It's just over carbonated. Don't believe me? Try taking a drink of warm root beer and let it sit on your tongue, then try warm flat root beer.” 10:21:32 AM 1/15/02 “Mmmmmmm....I love Barq's. It's also the only root beer I know of that's caffeinated. I always thought that was what they meant by the bite thing.” 10:26:13 AM 1/15/02 strange fact: “i'm not rich yet! what the hell.” 10:30:25 AM 1/15/02 “Fnord keeps a spare eyebrow in his pocket! Wow!” 10:47:13 AM 1/15/02 strange fact: “TILT! bwaaahahahahaaa!! ;-)” 10:49:13 AM 1/15/02 “LOL!” 10:51:49 AM 1/15/02 “ The Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the "Jags". The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are known as the "Bucs". Logically, the Tennessee Titans are the...um..."Tits"?” 12:29:50 PM 1/15/02 “Tin foil is an effective deterrent to RADIO BRAIN CONTROL.” 12:46:46 PM 1/15/02 “Tin foil can be smoothed-out flat using the oils from racoon brains!” 1:06:10 PM 1/15/02 “You never know when a spare eyebrow might come in handy. Say you grow a third eye in the middle of your forehead... or your WhisperLite burps out a 3-foot fireball and burns off one of your originals...” 2:00:38 PM 1/15/02 “...and the odds of the second occurance are far, far greater than those of the first...” 2:02:17 PM 1/15/02 “The traditional International Pancake Race between the housewives of Liberal, Kansas and Olney, England, is held annually on Shrove Tuesday. Just thought you Might want to know...” 2:04:10 PM 1/15/02 “Hey anybody got any racoon brains they aren't using? Gene Simmons claims to have pictures of all the groupies he slept with. A whisperlite will burn all three eybrows-and lashes-and bangs....” 2:17:11 PM 1/15/02 “I was thinking that seeing as how every hair on your head would probably be gone, you could stick that spare eyebrow over your ear and comb it over.” 2:38:52 PM 1/15/02 “did you know that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population?” 3:33:05 PM 1/15/02 Ima Hogg “Was a verfy real person, daughter of a Texas govenor, she did not have a sister named Ura. http://www.famoustexans.com/imahogg.htm” 3:38:38 PM 1/15/02 “"Every animal has enough brains to tan it's own hide". The brain is an excellent source for the oils needed in the tanning process.” 3:55:02 PM 1/15/02 Real men of the sea “C-Lovers - If a man were proportioned like a barnacle, his 'thingy' would be forty feet long! No wonder they don't move around. Kinda gives a whole new meaning to the word 'trolling'” 4:01:49 PM 1/15/02 Strange Fact for 1/15/02 “The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!” 5:01:15 PM 1/15/02 “Why is it that there is artificial flavoring in lemon aid but there are real lemons in dishwashing detergent” 5:03:29 PM 1/15/02 “One out of every two men have a #&%!$ that is smaller than average.” 5:24:36 PM 1/15/02 “4 % of the population has webed feet” 5:39:16 PM 1/15/02 “Dang ChuckD, that's my favorite joke and now everybody's going to know it's BS.” 5:56:28 PM 1/15/02 “Hey do I count as a strange fact......?” 6:34:32 PM 1/15/02 “Anybody got any more of these for my collection? A clowder of cats A kennel of dogs A pace of donkeys A brace of ducks A knot of frogs A gaggle of geese (on the ground) A skein of geese (in the air) A drove of pigs A warren of rabbits A wedge of swans A rafter of turkeys A pod of whales A murder of crows A Flock of Sea Gulls?” 9:00:46 PM 1/15/02 “A herd of hawks??? A bathroom of Beeeeaaatches???” 9:07:55 PM 1/15/02 Here ya go Tilt: “a troop of baboons a shoal of bass a skulk or leash of foxes a shrewdness of apes a dray of squirrels a sleuth or sloth of bears” 9:11:12 AM 1/16/02 “A kangaroo has a bifricated #&%!$.” 9:30:03 AM 1/16/02 “Coooool. Thanks. Dunno 'bout that bifurcated thang, LOL” 12:49:04 PM 1/16/02
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