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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: DJ Not Nice on May 01, 2013, 03:02 pm
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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.
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The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.
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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
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A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
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You can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish.
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Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
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It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
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Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
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The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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Starfish don't have brains.
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Polar bears are left handed.
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A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
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The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
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Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
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Porcupines float in water.
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Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
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Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
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A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
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A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
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Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into to shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
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Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
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The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
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Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
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"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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If you spell out consecutive numbers, you have to go up to one thousand until you would find the letter "a"
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Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
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Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
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The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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Pearls melt in vinegar.
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Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
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If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
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Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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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.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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It doesn't matter what you call a one legged dog... it won't come anyway!
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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.
That is the best one from the first page I recon
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Why tip someone for a job I’m capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones
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Why tip someone for a job I’m capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones
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Men get hiccups more often than women
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Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better
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Chances that an American lives within 50 mi of where he/she grew up: 1 in 2.
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Every time a person sneezes, they experience 1/8 of an orgasm.
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Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
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lizards can do handstands
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Fact. Bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
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Polar bears are left handed.
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Fact. Bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
What kind of bear is best? FALSE. The answer is the black bear.
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I am faster than 80% of all snakes.
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Number of different familial relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105
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Hannibal Lector never blinks throughout the entire film, "Silence of the Lambs."
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"As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden."
Chauncey Gardener
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
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Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3
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Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7
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Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
Percentage of mammal species that are: 3
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Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50
Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
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The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
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Ice Cream is chinese food.
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You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
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Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
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Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
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Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
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Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
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Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Cherophobia is a fear of fun.
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ok i will try that with coffee
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The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.
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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
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If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
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Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.
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More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
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A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, while a chicken with white earlobes will produce white white eggs.
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2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Never play leap frog with a Unicorn
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The # key on the keyboard is called an octothorpe.
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Hawaiians love Spam
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The fastest moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour.
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An armadillo can walk under water.
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a leech as 32 brains.
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In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
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The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
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Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.
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Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.
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Rain contains vitamin B12.
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Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
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A snail can sleep for three years.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by the Egyptians.
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Cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten.
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The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3million.
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Apples are actually part of the rose family.
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The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
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Blueberry juice boosts memory.
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orly? I knew some like the tongue, not some of the others :P
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1 in 5000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
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The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
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Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
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When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
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Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
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A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
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Cats can hear ultrasound.
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Raccoons have a penis bone
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If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones will rise to the top.
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-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Iceland has no railway system or army!
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Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
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Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.
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Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
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Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.
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Even Antarctica has an area code. It is 672.
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Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell.
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An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
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Iceland has no railway system or army!
i've been trying to debunk these by looking them up and I can't. damn you.
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A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
cerealbox :D
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Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.
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Giraffes are unable to cough.
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A cat can jump even seven times as high as it is tall.
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Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.
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A cat's sense of smell is about 14 times stronger than ours.
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A dog's sense of smell is about 1000 times better than a person's.
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A litter of kittens is called a kindle, and a group of cats is called a clowder.
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Cats have 32 muscles in each ear and can turn their ear very quickly to catch noise.
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Da Vinci isn't really his last name. He had no Last name. Da Vinci simply means 'Of/From Vinci' Vinci being the town where he was born.
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The left testicle usually hangs lower than the right for right-handed men. The opposite is true for lefties.
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Exactly three days ago I ate two family size cans of Chef Boyardee Ravioli.
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Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn't wear pants.
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85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives
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The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
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Humans, bonobo monkeys, and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
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Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't.
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Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
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Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium!
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An adulterous Greek male was sometimes punished by the removal of his pubic hair and the insertion of a large radish into his rectum
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Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day
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For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages
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Exactly three days ago I ate two family size cans of Chef Boyardee Ravioli.
How high were you?
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Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.
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The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.
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"Ithyphallophobia" is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis
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Dog-Gone is!
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War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.