Weird-Ass Facts

[lozjh]

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?

It's venomous spurs for a platypus not spines.
And giraffes require high blood pressure to pump from their heart up to their neck so they have larger cardiac muscles to accomplish this, however their heart beats slower than that of a human. Also for humans if the main aorta is lacerated it can spray the blood 6 feet up

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?!

They may have tested it or just made a generalisation since gorilla DNA and human DNA are like 98% similar


Did you know:
Cats have no feeling whatsoever in the scruff of their neck
Glass windows are actually liquid
There are 2 different species of zebra
It is possible to directly transfer a cold to species of ape/monkey

I can't really think of many good ones at the moment so just noting down what comes to me from reading other posts

Glass windows aren't liquid, the myth comes from when early windows were made and left to cool at a slant making them thicker at one end. Seeing as that end was heavier it made sense to put it at the bottom which gave the appearence of the window having been a slow moving liquid.

My fact: You can hold a crocodile's mouth shut with one hand.

 

[Kiba Bloodfang]

Glass windows -are- slowly moving liquids. Perfectly flat panels have been used for a few hundred years to be found thicker at the bottom.

Butterflies taste with their feet. Everyone knows that, though.

 

[Kiba Bloodfang]

An earthworm has ten hearts.

 

[Abengoshis]

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?

It's venomous spurs for a platypus not spines.
And giraffes require high blood pressure to pump from their heart up to their neck so they have larger cardiac muscles to accomplish this, however their heart beats slower than that of a human. Also for humans if the main aorta is lacerated it can spray the blood 6 feet up

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?!

They may have tested it or just made a generalisation since gorilla DNA and human DNA are like 98% similar


Did you know:
Cats have no feeling whatsoever in the scruff of their neck
Glass windows are actually liquid
There are 2 different species of zebra
It is possible to directly transfer a cold to species of ape/monkey

I can't really think of many good ones at the moment so just noting down what comes to me from reading other posts

Glass windows are not liquid. They are solid but their molecules are arranged in a way similar to liquids. OLD windows were closer to liquids, but definitely not the new type.

 

[Datalord]

How would you know if their not willing to admit it?

By the...percentile that is...willing?

What Agent Chuck means is, if 10% of men admit it, how would you know 80% more do it if they don't admit it, either the statistic is biased, or someone has a mind reading gun

 

[Datalord]

Glass windows -are- slowly moving liquids. Perfectly flat panels have been used for a few hundred years to be found thicker at the bottom.

Butterflies taste with their feet. Everyone knows that, though.

oooorrr it was left to cool and as it cooled glass headed downwards and made the bottom thicker. I find that much more likely then someone sat there for a few hundred years obsessively measuring the thickness of a glass window that was perfectly level all the way through (hint- a few hundred years ago it wouldn't have been)

Glass panes are left to cool horizontally to prevent them from cooling unevenly, however glass at room temperature is technically still in the liquid phase, however it is incredibly viscous because of the intermolecular forces caused by the high silicon content

 

[Eat Uranium]

Glass panes are left to cool horizontally to prevent them from cooling unevenly, however glass at room temperature is technically still in the liquid phase, however it is incredibly viscous because of the intermolecular forces caused by the high silicon content

No, glass is an amorphous solid. It does not flow, and is a solid in the same way that plastics are solid.

 

[rathorn14]

I read somewhere that the pigeon, also known as the rock dove, is the only bird that could survive on the space station as it is the only bird with muscles in its throat that would allow it to swallow water.

Close, Zebra Finches are also capable of drinking water in this method, used for drinking dew off of leaves.

thanks for the update!

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

The can opener was invented around 20 years after the can.

It took man around a decade to get into space, but around two decades to create and perfect the zipper.

The revolver design came when the inventor (whatever his name is) was on a ship and saw how the wheel locked into place.

 

[CloakedOne]

How would you know if their not willing to admit it?

By the...percentile that is...willing?

What Agent Chuck means is, if 10% of men admit it, how would you know 80% more do it if they don't admit it, either the statistic is biased, or someone has a mind reading gun

read on, I realize my mistake and correct myself later.

 

[Zildjin81]

Silver, orange, width, purple, and month don't rhyme with any other words in the english language.

width - myth

You are aware of how wiDth is pronounced, right?

Did nobody think of the word "with", I mean, imagine saying "No words in the english language rhyme WITH myth". Irony!

The original guy said that no words rhyme with WIDTH. Then, someone who clearly cannot pronounce WIDTH said it rhymes with MYTH. Then I told him he was dumb. Then you said that MYTH rhymes with WITH.

WTF?

 

[martin's a madman]

Silver, orange, width, purple, and month don't rhyme with any other words in the english language.

width - myth

You are aware of how wiDth is pronounced, right?

Did nobody think of the word "with", I mean, imagine saying "No words in the english language rhyme WITH myth". Irony!

The original guy said that no words rhyme with WIDTH. Then, someone who clearly cannot pronounce WIDTH said it rhymes with MYTH. Then I told him he was dumb. Then you said that MYTH rhymes with WITH.

WTF?

I'm asking if people have forgotten about the word With. This has nothing to do with the Width discussion. With and Myth rhyme.

 

[Zildjin81]

In the four professional major-league North American sports (baseball, basketball, football, and hockey), there are only eight teams whose names don't end in 's': The Utah Jazz, the Miami Heat, the Orlando Magic, the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago White Sox, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Minnesota Wild, and my favorite: the Colorado Avalanche.

These are all American Major League Soccer teams:

LA Galaxy, New England Revolution, Chicago Fire, Columbus Crew, Chivas USA, Real Salt Lake, and The Philadelphia Union. Don't they count?

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

Plowing a field with an elephant is illegal in tennessee
You cannot leave an alagator tied to a fire hydrant unattended in new york
It is illegal to shoot jackrabbits from a boat in alabama.

Thinking about these facts you'll come to the conclusion that it is likely just one thing that a specific law forbids.
"You cannot tie animals to fire hydrants/city property and then leave them unattended"
"You cannot shoot animals from boats"
That sort of thing.

Actually, he is sort of right.
This is the story behind the elepant thing:
Back in the day of travelling circuses, the ringleader used to hitch an elephant to a plow and plow a nearby field in order to attract a crowd. This tore up the field to no end, and the elephant flattened any crops. One (wealthy) farmer got so sick of his fields being destroyed by the circuses, and could not convince the ringleaders to stop, he went all the way to the state level and got it banned.

 

[Squeaksx]

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

I knew that....and I really shouldn't

Was not allergic, just preferred celery because it was easier to spit out and continue his lines.

 

[Triforceformer]

Plowing a field with an elephant is illegal in Tennessee

Well I've run out of Job choices then.

O.T. Diabetic people CAN have sugar, just in small amounts. (Well you guys took all the penis to body ratio facts.)