Weirdest Fact You Know

[EviladeBlazingDemon]

Here is another fact.

I'm right behind you.

Ha! there is a wall behind me! See?... oh wait, oh god no! AAAAGH!

The word 'the' is 'DIE!' in German.

 

[Danik93]

That's wrong!! a ducks echo do echo! the duck's quack fades slowly so a human can't hear the echo.

 

[Di22y]

The word 'hello' was invented as a formal way to answer the telephone, there were many other debated ways to answer it prior to 'hello', one of which was 'Ahoy ahoy. Go Montgomery Burns.

 

[Voodoomancer]

There's a place in New Zealand called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, also known as Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu. It's a hill.

In 18th century India a common execution method was to have an elephant step on the convict's head.

Phobophobia is a fear of phobias.
And Omniphobia is a fear of EVERYTHING!

A Komodo dragon's bite is always fatal, not because of poison but because of the immense amount of bacteria flourishing in their mouths. Bad dental hygiene can kill, kids.

 

[Pocket Apocalypse]

When a craze for Ostrich farming swept the UK in the 80s (no, that's not the weird fact), it quickly ran into problems because the captive-bred ostriches wouldn't mate with one another. Research published in a peer-reviewed journal (and awarded an Ignobel prize, which is where I know of it from) revealed that this was because captive-bred ostriches, raised by humans rather than their mothers, fixate sexually on humans.

Addendum to previous: If I remember aright, an ostrich's penis is an average of 19 inches long.

 

[Spicy meatball]

The reported IQ of an Alsatian...is 60

 

[Fniff]

Here is another fact.

I'm right behind you.

Ha! there is a wall behind me! See?... oh wait, oh god no! AAAAGH!

The word 'the' is 'DIE!' in German.

Intresting last words.

**Strangles EviladeBlazingdemon**

 

[vxicepickxv]

The Rat Park projects which proved that giving rats a nurturing environment actually helped not only prevent rats from drinking morphine(no matter how much sweetener was added to it)but also had two control groups. The rats which moved from the park to an isolation became quickly dependent on straight morphine, which is very bitter to rats. The rats that went from being isolated and moved into rat park had minimal withdrawal symptoms and only infrequently used the morphine until they all weaned themselves off of it. The entire scientific study was considered a collection of conjecture and lies by the United States government because it went against the war on drugs theory, with the backlash saying that Vancouver was a scientific black hole.

 

[ZomgSharkz]

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

This would seem to be a confusion of statistics and probability. I would say this indicates that men are more likely to be doing an activity that puts them at higher risk of getting struck by lightning. So, 6 times more men than women struck by lightning does not mean men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning. Physiologically, there is no difference between men and women to account for even a tiny difference in chance to be struck by lightning (except average height), so it must be due to circumstances placing more men in harms way than women.

That is true, but you could also argue that as men tend to be bigger and more muscular then women, there would be larger amounts of iron in their bodies, making them more conductive. And as you said, men are typicaly taller.

Men also have a higher cellular water content than women, making them slightly more conductive.

That may be true, but I choose to believe it's because only men are going to be outside during a lightning storm. "Bah it's not that bad out."

OT: Lightning strikes the earth 6,000 times a minute, and Pope John Paul II is a Honorary Globe Trotter.

Apart from humans, dolphins are the only animal that have sex for pleasure.

Not true. I have seen video of two male Manatee's giving each other oral sex in a 69 position. Weird but true.

I'd have to agree, I once saw two male lions getting it on at a zoo. While it is possible they didn't understand that it wouldn't work, I give them more credit than that, so I doubt they were doing that to try to reproduce.

 

[Samuel Adams]

in tennesse it is illegal to play a pinball machine if you are a minor(i know this because i got arrested and put in a holding cell for 5 hours waiting for my parents

flex when a misquito is biting you and the rapid blood flow will make the misquito explode

I will have to try this. And will have to bookmark this forum.

 

[Painkiller35]

I have 2

1) you cannot lick your elbow.

Thats wrong

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_it_possible_to_lick_your_elbow

OT: Shita means rain in Maltese

I happen to be one of those people that can lick/kiss their elbow.

 

[Aesir23]

In Winnipeg it's illegal to goad an Alligator into attacking you. We don't even have alligators anywhere near us.

 

[ShankHA32]

A cats vagoo is only 1/2" deep.
I know way too many sick sexual things... What have I done with my life! ;.;

Nice LICD referance.

Mine would have to be: On the standard scale of Mental Health, a PETA member is 8 times less healthy than the average terrorist.

 

[Chinchama]

All polar bears are left footed.

 

[Spicy meatball]

The reported IQ of an Alsatian...is 60

The word Alsatian was used instead of the real name for the dog "german Shepard" in WWI because the english were predjudice against anything german, nowadays only aristocrats and weirdos use alsatian.
On the same note the British royal family changed their last name to windsor because they were related to the german royal family and din't want to be called out on it.

I hate to pull you up on that...but it seems that someone has already beaten me to it..but Alsatian is still very much a common term for the German Shepard breed. It does not have a derogatory connotation so most people would either say German Shepard or Alsatian. It's a to-ma-to/to-may-to thing.

I would recommend that you check your netiquette and facts before posting in the future.