Weird-Ass Facts

[Jokermonster]

Did you know.....

A platypus has venomous spines on its body.

If you cut the head off a giraffe, due to the amount of blood pressure, the resulting spurt of blood would shoot 3m in the air (makes you think who had the time to find that out.. :s)

Before George Washington had a set of wooden teeth he had a pair made of hippo's teeth.

And Mel Blanc the voice of Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots.

So yeah...anyone else got any weird facts?

 

[Darkblazer]

The dog from Frasier's real name was Moose?

 

[Souplex]

It is legal for women to be topless in New York (The city, I don't know aboot the state so don't try until you are sure) based on the constitutional amendment that says laws don't discriminate.
Also, to add to the OP's fact aboot Mel Blanc, they actually had a tub for him to spit the carrots he chewed into because they couldn't get anything else to sound right.

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Prepare for NamlessGuy to welcome you though.

 

[Skeleon]

Did you know that a tick bite is actually a sting?

 

[Ironic Pirate]

79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

No, I dont.
Prepare for NamlessGuy to welcome you though.

We shall see.

Naa, not really.

There are only 3 types of snakes in the English wild, and only one of them is poisonous....

Not really weird though...

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Cat piss glows under a black light.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas

That's all I've got =/

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Cat piss glows under a black light.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas

That's all I've got =/

..People actually tested those things?!

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Did you know.....

A platypus has venomous spines on its body.

If you cut the head off a giraffe, due to the amount of blood pressure, the resulting spurt of blood would shoot 3m in the air (makes you think who had the time to find that out.. :s)

Before George Washington had a set of wooden teeth he had a pair made of hippo's teeth.

And Mel Blanc the voice of Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots.

So yeah...anyone else got any weird facts?

He wasn't allergic, he just didn't like the taste, but no other vegtable he ate sounded like a carrot when chomped on, so he had to spit the chewed carrot in a bucket while doing his dub.

 

[AkJay]

Male Koala bears have a bifurcated penis, and female Koala bears have 2 vagina's.

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Male Koala bears have a bifurcated penis, and female Koala bears have 2 vagina's.

..No.. I didnt want to know that

 

[keybird]

79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

43% actually

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Cat piss glows under a black light.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas

That's all I've got =/

..People actually tested those things?!

Yeah...

Here's some more

Slugs have 4 noses.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

 

[oppp7]

Nikola Tesla had a pigeon he loved like a wife.
Edit: The guy who made Ikea was once a fascist. He actually went to a Nazi party meeting after WW2.

 

[darkless]

Did you know.....

A platypus has venomous spines on its body.

If you cut the head off a giraffe, due to the amount of blood pressure, the resulting spurt of blood would shoot 3m in the air (makes you think who had the time to find that out.. :s)

Before George Washington had a set of wooden teeth he had a pair made of hippo's teeth.

So yeah...anyone else got any weird facts?

They arent spines its back claws are venomous, also the platypus bill is so sensitive to electrical current that it can sense the electrical impulses in a human muscle...if they could climb we would be screwed.

They just measured the amount of pressure the giraffes heart exerted on the blood.

His teeth where never wood they were carved from hippo bones not made from there teeth.

OT: Sharks are dangerous from the womb a scientist studying a pregnant shark was preforming surgery on one and reported being bitten by the Fetus.

 

[darkless]

All polar bears are left handed.

Not true, all polar bears are ambidextrous.

 

[Soxafloppin]

79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

43% actually

Really? i heard it was 84%

Ostridges eyes are bigger than there brains.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Necrophelia is not a federal offense

As of 2004, there was an Island in the UK where it was/is technically legal to shot Scottsmen with crossbows