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acer840

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In the last 3,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

A Great Horned Owl can rotate it's head 270 degrees

Coca Cola was origionally Green

1 in every 6 guns in the world is an AK-47

A Bowling Pin will fall if tilted over 7.5 degrees

Mexico once had 3 presidents in 1 day.

(I'll add more later)
 

Crystal Cuckoo

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The koala is one of the few land animals that does not require water to survive.
The koala does need water to survive, like every other land animal.
It just never drinks water, it eats it in the form of eucalyptus leaves (which contain water).
Just thought I'd mention that...

EDIT: Learned to quote properly XD
 

gamshobny

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There is a programming language called "whitespace". It only uses tabs, spaces and newline characters and ingnores any other characters.

Electrons travel from the negative to the positive pole, but electricity itself from the positive to the negative pole.

The russian "5.45 mm" round is actually about 5.56 mm.

In quantum mechanics, gravity is mostly ignored because it's such a 'weak force'.

"Sinter Klaas" (dutch Santa Claus) actualy comes from Turkey, not Spain.

Nobody believed Australian colonists until they sent an actual living specimen of the platapus.
 

TelegraphCat

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um.
according to childrens psychology: children will always assume the larger container has more in it than the smaller ones, even after the children watched the amount being poured into a larger container from a smaller one. and this applies more for taller containers than wider containers.

a penny even after reaching terminal velocity will barely have enough force to puncture skin. a frozen chicken will, though.

NERF isn't actually an acronym for anything. its just spelled that way.
 

Corpse XxX

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I just have a saying thats made me think a bit:

One man's terrorist, is another man's freedom fighter!
 

Zenode

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-More People die from getting hit on the head with a coconut than being eaten by a shark

-You are more likely to be attacked by a cow than a shark

-In England the Speaker of the House isn't aloud to speak

- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance

- Swedish People drink more cofee than any other race in the world

- Almonds are a member of the Peach family

-If any of you have seen Pulp Fiction watch it again and ALL the clocks are stuck on 4:20(Trust Me)

- Over 400 americans die are killed by toilets

- In a lifetime you produce enough gas to make an atomic bomb (Why not everyone fart in a can and give it to the government...FREE NUKES :p)

-There are more chickens in the world than people

-Turtles and Honeybees are deaf

-There is a disease in the world where people think they are an ox

-If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the birth rate

-The youngest pope was eleven years old

-The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds

-In the course of a lifetime you will, while eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders

-A statute in the New Jersey code states that, ?The driver of an overtaking motor vehicle not within a business or residence district shall give audible warning with his horn or other warning device before passing or attempting to pass a vehicle proceeding in the same direction.?

-In Florida
A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
Any form of sexual contact other than m--sionary position is a misdomeanor. (This is still a law. There have been several cases of people being brought up on these charges in the past 5 years alone. If the police enter a home with a warrent for some other crime and catch the 'culprits' in action, they can, and are, brought up on those charges.)

- Indiana:
Bathing is prohibited during the winter.
Citizens are not allowed to attend a movie house or theater nor ride in a public streetcar within at least four hours after eating garlic.

- Louisiana:
It is illegal to rob a bank and then shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol.

- New Mexico:
Females are strictly forbidden to appear unshaven in public

- Oklahoma:
Violators can be fined, arrested or jailed for making ugly faces at a dog.

- Nebraska:
A parent can be arrested if his child cannot hold back a burp during a church service.

- Washington:
A law to reduce crime states: "It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is entering the town.
 

acer840

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More Useless facts from Acer840

-A Hurrican releases more energy in 10 minutes than all the Nuclear weapons combined
-Sagittarius is the most southerly of the Zodiac Constellations
-World Record for non-stop rocking in a Rocking Chair: 440 Hours
-A full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon
-Months that begin on sunday will have a Friday the 13th (Obvious one)
-A gold razor from King Tutankhamen's Tomb was still sharp enough to use
-There is a 1 in 7 chance of a burglary being solved in the US
-Grapes explode when heated in a microwave oven (I do not endorse dangerous behaviour)
-At latitude 60 degrees you can sail all the way around the world
-New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world
 

Eagle Est1986

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Zenode said:
-If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the birth rate
Surely that can't be true? That'd mean that a Chinese baby is born every second or so, assuming this line walks very slowly. That'd mean that over 600,000 new babies are born every week in China? That's alarming, to say the least.


The average delay of Japan's bullet train is 6 seconds.
 

TwistedEllipses

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Fredrick the 1st, First Emperor of the holy roman empire drowned in 1190 after he jumped in an arabic lake without removing his armour after marching hundreds of miles in the desert. Age of empires 2 teaches you things.
Ironically that crusade (the third crusade) was one of the successful ones...the fourth crusade was worse, most didn't even make it to the holyland and they decided instead to invade their allies!
 

DoW Lowen

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When Hitler got pissed off enough he dropped to the floor and chewed the carpet. And the people who witnessed this behavior called him Teppichfresser (carpet eater).
 

gamshobny

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Zenode said:
-If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the birth rate
Now how would they be making babies while being in line? And how would you determine where a baby is placed when born in this line?

Cogito said:
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

Wonder why?
Because of all the sex jokes? Or perhaps because of all the stupid research being done by men on women in an attempt to understand them?
 

Eldritch Warlord

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According to census information the 4th largest religion in Great Britain is Jedi.

Elephants are the only mammal incapable of jumping.

In numerous small villages throughout the world facing the problem of full cemeteries death has been made illegal.

The first Europeans to set foot in the new world were not explorers led by Columbus or Vikings. They were in fact Solutreans who arrived at about 15000 BP (before present, present being 1980).
 
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The richest country in the world is Luxembourg at about $58,900 per capita, about $18,000 more than the U.S. (Luxembourg) [http://www.luxembourg.co.uk/pics/luxembourg_in_europe.jpg]

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Abraham Lincoln faces to the right on a penny while all the other presidents face to the left on US coins.

A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. (disgusting)

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
 

Anarchemitis

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DoW Lowen said:
For every person on earth there are 200 million insects. That's a f***ing scary thought.

If there was a war between humanity and every insect in the world, who would win?
If we were at war with ants alone, we'd be outnumbered 60,000 to one. Yes we'd be screwed, unless somebody made 6 billion flamethrowers.
 

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-The highest navicable body of water in the world is Lake Titicaca on the Purevian Bolivian border.

-The See No Evil Speak No Evil Hear No Evil monkeys are named (in order)Mizaru, Iwazaru, and Kikazaru

-The element with the highest boiling point is Tungsten.
 

Cheesebob

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The world's largest augmented breats is a women with the US bra size of 42M with an around-chest-over-nipple length of 60.5 inches!
 

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Klagermeister said:
The South Pole is colder than the North Pole.
A group of ferrets is called a business.
Leonardo da Vinci was autistic.
Fat is what makes food taste good.
Salt has over 10,000 uses.
3% of all households have a jar of anchovy paste in the fridge (EWWWW).
Bubble gum is pink because that's the only color the inventor had left.
The name "SPAM" comes from "Spiced Ham".
Realtors are not allowed to use the phrase "Master bedroom" for fear of promoting slavery.
Buddha's real name was "Siddhartha Gotama".
1 in every 4 million lobsters is bright blue.
Mr. Rogers, from the famous kids' TV show, was a sniper in the Vietnam War.
Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Ozzy Osbourne once worked in a slaughterhouse.
Oxygen is what causes you to age, and therefore die.
The word "nerd" was coined by Theodore Giesel, AKA Dr. Seuss.
You can make a deadly TAZER out of a disposable camera.
Platypuses are deadly.
Technically speaking, pillbugs are crustaceans.
I almost fell off my chair at the Mr. Rogers one.