Random Trivia!!

[effervescence]

did u know a single nerve cell in a blue whale connecting the tail to the spine can be 32 metres long??

your turn.....

[Merc]

LMAO reen, i lobve you:o)

mines not so naughty (*google here i come*)
but an interesting email i got...*goes to copy/paste


I have been driving for over forty years. One would think I would have noticed the little secret on my dashboard that was staring me right in the face the whole time. I didn't and I bet you probably haven't either.

Quick question, which side of your car is your gas tank on? If you are anything like me, you probably can't r emember right away. My solution is to uncomfortably stick my head out the window, strain my neck and look. If you don't do this in your own car you definitely have done it in a borrowed or rental car.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to share with you my little secret so you will no longer look like Ace Ventura on your way to the gas station or put your neck at risk of discomfort or injury.

If you look at your gas gauge, you will see a small icon of a gas pump. The handle of the gas pump will extend out on either the left or right side of the pump. If your tank is on the left, the handle will be on the left. If your tank is on the right, the handle will be on the right (see photo above). It is that simple!

I don't know how you feel right now but when I found out this morning I felt cheated!

Why don't the dealers share such important information with car buyers? I don't understand why this isn't in the driver's manual? I don't get why any mechanic I have ever been too or know has even thought of mentioning this to me? The only possible explanation can be that all these people probably don't even know!

Go out and share the world's best kept auto secret with your friends as this information is way too important to be kept secret.

romp

[Merc]

ooooh thinks of naught one...it involve ,as ween called it, 'wangs' and ...ummmm..shall we say 'caves??? [think a min you'll get..oh wait...look who im talikng to lol]
something about there being greatb length to a 'cave' and the average wang lenght...alas..there are alot of unexplored, unreached caves out there
lol
romp

[effervescence]

haha, a hydraulic wang. thats freakin awesome. whales rule!!

[effervescence]

hang on, dont people get stuck in caves quite often?!

[Merc]

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so are you suggesting that some poor ppl have never escaped angd lived to tell the tail? lol
romp

[newanda]

lmao!
hydraulic wang :)
I reeeeeeally needed to laugh today! thanks!

[effervescence]

indeed, romp, indeed.

[effervescence]

there is a frog species where the male eats the female's eggs after ferilization, shuts off its digestive system for however long (i think like 6 weeks or something) and then the baby froglets are born by hopping out if it's mouth.

[effervescence]

No matter its size or weight, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.

[blondiebear]

I'm so innocent.
In the continental U.S, aka the lower 48, the lowest and highest places are just sixty miles away from each other. Mt Whitney is 14494 feet high. Badwater Basin in Death Valley -282. And there is a little sign up the cliff behind Badwater showing you where sea level is.

:disbelief:

Both of these places are in California. Is that why we're such fruits, nuts and flakes?:hehe: In case anyone wanted to know, I'm a nut. Or a nut case.

[Seraphsigh]

My friend Jack holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest oboe player.

[effervescence]

thats cool. he must have very nimble fingers...

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the world's termites outweigh the world's humans by 10 to 1

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Seven million cell phones are dropped into the toliet per year.

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Coca-Cola was originally green

(i think i should stop spamming my own thread now lol)

[effervescence]

it actually works, the paper thing. its quite freaky

[effervescence]

oooooooooooooooo cunning. ive heard the 7 folds thing many times and i think our whole class tried it once....u may hav just disproved a record or something lol

[Merc]

Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
The pet food company Ralston Purina recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power chicken feed designed to help roosters build muscles for cockfighting, which is popular in many areas of the world.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.
Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.
The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
Deer can't eat hay.
Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.
On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.
Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.
There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.
A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.
Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.
Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task.
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two or more months. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years.
You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.


mt turn t spam thred,,i realy eekn gkoo-ooo=py du to to new r [wi geer a

[Seraphsigh]

Hm. Well you didn't leave much for the rest of us!!!
:)

[blondiebear]

Desert tortoises are found in California, Arizona, Nevada and Mexico. They get most of the water they need from the plants they eat. In California, the desert tortoise is an endangered species. In that state there are more in captivity than in the wild, a result of people taking the tortoises home as souvenirs of desert visits and loss of wild habitat. So that wildlife officials know how many desert tortoises are in captivity, those animals have to be registered with a government agency. These animals may not be bought and sold. Domestic desert tortoises may not be let go in the wild, in part because they have picked up colds and other illnesses from other kinds of tortoises and turtles in captivity. This is done to keep the wild ones safe from disease.

[Merc]

A group of Rhinoceros is called a crash.
One quarter of all creatures on the planet are beetles.
Bubble gum and fairy floss were invented by dentists.
Seaweed is used to thicken icecream.
A giraffe's tongue is 45cm long.
An average woman consumes approximately 20kg of lipstick in her life.
Out of 20000 species of bees, only 4 make honey.
You use over 70 muscles to say one word.
It's against the law for monsters to enter the town of Urbana, Illinios in the U.S.A.
Eskimos have over 100 words for ice.
Giant squids have eyes as big as watermelons.
Only 5% of the ocean floor has been mapped as precisely as the moon.
Eels have two hearts.
In spring, a blue whale will eat up to four tonnes of food a day, that's about twice as much as a well fed human eats per year.
Lobsters have pale blue blood.
The mantis shrimp has an extending claw that can punch a hole through a glass jar.
Starfish don't have brains.
Icthyomaniacs are people who are crazy about fish.
99% of all animal species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
Plants that are not cared for will cry for help, a thirsty plant will make a high-pitched sound that is too high for us to hear.
Snakes have one lung.
Antarctica is a desert.
Males lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
A group of crows is called a murder.
Slugs have 4 noses.
It takes a plastic container 50000 years to start decomposing.
The longest sausage made in Australia was 11 kilometres long.
In Switzerland, it's against the law to slam your car door.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Koalas are excellent swimmers.
The following bizarre facts were sent to me by a friend!
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Maine is the only state in the US whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" -and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life."
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz".
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
What do you think? It's pretty interesting stuff isn't it? It seems that some people have too much time on their hands. (including me!)

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[Merc]

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chk it out; funny,bizzare,intersting, and gross facts you prolly didnt want to know lol
romp

[Merc]

just a sample of the info from the siite...eeewww
romp







Body Excretions
Weird facts about your body!
Ear Wax: Some people eat the waxy buildup out of their ears. Worse still, one woman was spotted in Spain munching casually on her eye-boogers (also known as eye crust, or "sleep", which contains some urine).
Cradle Cap: That crud in the baby's bed is not necessarily dandruff. It's called cradle crap, and it's caused by leftover chemicals from the mother's body. They make oil glands in the baby's head become active after birth.
Belly Button Fluff: Ever wonder what causes a belly button booger as you stare at it, pick it, or eat it? It's lint, mainly from your clothing, which sticks to the sweat and remains there after the moisture departs.
Bezoars: Are repulsive bundles of hair, vegetable fibers, or food that form in the stomachs of humans (and animals). Incredibly, Queen Elizabeth I had a bezoar included in her crown jewels. Sometimes bezoars become large enough to cause trouble. One woman chewed her hair enough for a bezoar to form; it was large enough that it had to be surgically removed.
Abcess: If a tooth gets really rotten, a pus-filled hole, or abscess, can form underneath it. Sometimes germs from this abscess attack the gums and form a gumboil. If this bursts, the mouth fills with vile-tasting pus.
Saliva: When a person pees, a small deposit of urine enters the mouth via the saliva glands.
Toe jam: Comes from bacteria dining on the fatty acids in the sweat that pours out of the foot's pores. But it's not only dead bacteria that give that gunk between your toes a bad odor; it's also their piles of waste.
Dust: Is made of dead skin cells. You change your entire bodys cells every seven years... don't leave a room for that long, don't hoover, it'll be you all over the room!
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[Merc]

sorry for posting such lloooonnnggg ones, but ui cant pick what to leave out!!!!
romp

[blondiebear]

Romper-fry is booo-ored.:laugh:

And here I thought my little essay on desert tortoises was long. BTW we have a desert tortoise, her name is Sage.

[dark_light]

I have a question
Whats an eggplant?! And why are they growing so many of them?

[blondiebear]

Okay, eggplant are from the east coast. I don't know much about them either. That explains why.

There are a lot of kinds of cereal with almonds because one year there was an extra big crop of almonds so the growers found more ways to sell and for people to use/eat them.

*goes to look at jar of trail mix and to pick a couple of almonds out of them to crunch. California almonds!*

[effervescence]

The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet. - I did not know that! Wow we are really turning this into an animal theme. :D

[effervescence]

A person will ingest an average of 6 spiders during their lifetime.

[*Scarlett*]

Ear Wax: Some people eat the waxy buildup out of their ears. Worse still, one woman was spotted in Spain munching casually on her eye-boogers (also known as eye crust, or "sleep", which contains some urine).

that is disgusting!!! how does urine get in sleep?!


Saliva: When a person pees, a small deposit of urine enters the mouth via the saliva glands.
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Well i'm not going to the toilet again! from now on i will be "holding it in"

[blondiebear]

The singer-actress Cher's full name is Cherilyn La Piere Sarkisian. She was born in 1946 in the town of El Centro California.

No wonder she's so ambitious. El Centro is a farm town/city in Imperial County in the middle of the desert, the desert being irrigated by water from the Colorado River.

The lettuce seed used in the US is grown in El Centro. Nine months of the year it is too hot to grow lettuce as food, in the heat it goes to seed to quickly. Lettuce seed is the major crop in Imperial County.

My theme is California. My home.
*goes off to dig more California Almonds out of trail mix. Chomp chomp*

[effervescence]

i think my aunt/uncle/cousin used to live in california. now they live in eugene.
if u play music to a heart cell, it will start beating in time to the music.

[Merc]

I have a question
Whats an eggplant?! And why are they growing so many of them?


an eggplant is [i believe] part of the squash family..the coolest thing is its cloour BRIGHT PURPLE!!!!! never eaten one so dont know taste or cooking methods....but they are purty lol
romp

they are actually quite popular and in all the grocery stores *shrugs*
google will of course tell you more lol

[pea soup]

If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles.
Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years!

[effervescence]

the left side of your brain is better at processing words, but the right side is better at processing music