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[emmaree]

So I came across all this l interesting bits of information. I wont tell you where I got them from but if you can guess I will give you a gold star.

Well the idea is, I start of with what I have found and you add.

Did you know:


..........Swimming a quarter of a kilometer is almost equal to running one kilometer.


...........Most newborns cry without tears until they are three to six weeks old.


...........The scales on the underside of a snake are called scutes.


...........The bull frog is the only animal that never sleeps


...........to survive birds must eat at least half their weight in food each day


...........When glass breaks the cracks move faster than 5000km an hour.


..........A camel can shut its nostrils during a desert sandstorm.


.........Facial hair is the fastest growing hair in the body.


..........Galieo died in 1642 - the year of Issac Newtons birth


.........The bra was invented and patented by Mary Phelps Jacob.


..........Nevada and Canberra are varieties of cauliflower.



So what do you know

[Kik]

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
A helpfully handy number to memorise for science tests and pub quizzes


And I'm going to guess didyouknow.org as your source. (Hiding the website title in plain sight... )

[Martin]

I know lots of useless facts, but can't always pull them out of my brain on demand! One of the last snippets I absorbed though, was that owls can't move their eyes in their head (that's why they twist their heads all the time).

I'll update as more spring to mind - bet you can't wait!!!

[emmaree]

hahahaha no gold star for kik (( hint it wasn't the web)) I'm almost to embarrassed to disclose my source.

Can't wait for your pearls of random knowledge Martin !! hahaha


Di you know It takes a week to make jelly beans.

[Kik]

emmaree, on 20 July 2010 - 09:47 AM, said:

hahahaha no gold star for kik (( hint it wasn't the web)) I'm almost to embarrassed to disclose my source.

More guesses:
Was it 'Are you smarter then a 5th grader' or from food/ drink packaging?

[seenafterscene]

Kik, on 20 July 2010 - 12:23 PM, said:

More guesses:
Was it 'Are you smarter then a 5th grader' or from food/ drink packaging?

Was it an email forward???

[emmaree]

seenafterscene, on 21 July 2010 - 08:28 PM, said:

Was it an email forward???

No to you Kik and Matt,,, when you find out I will blush ,,,hahaha

Did you know the Afican eagle swooping at nearly 200km an hour, can brake to a halt in six metres.

[Kik]

emmaree, on 23 July 2010 - 08:38 AM, said:

No to you Kik and Matt,,, when you find out I will blush ,,,hahaha

Did you know there are more people in the world who eat alligators than there are alligators that eat people...

[Martin]

Did you know that there is only ONE palm tree native to Hawaii? Yup, it's true - the Hawaiian palm. Coconuts aren't actually native to Hawaii - they were brought over by the Polynesians.

More amazing facts to come...

[yamerias]

Games company SEGA was actually founded in the US not Japan

The working title for The Beatles song Yesterday was Scrambled Eggs

Wes Craven based Freddy Krugar on a guy who scared him as a child

Potato chips were invented after a person in a restaurant asked for really thin slices of potato that would be crunchy to eat

The band Motorhead was originally named Bastard (sorry for language!!)

Nintendo used to run hotels in Japan

The brain has a high content of fat

You can create carbon dioxide foam by mixing bicarbonate of soda with vinegar

Ever time you kiss someone/something you lose a fraction of skin from your lips

The PlayStation console came about after a collaboration between Sony and Nintendo went sour

In the Terminator, when you "see" through his eyes, the characters scrolling down the side are 6052 machine code.

No source in particular for any of these facts, just things I have gleaned here and there...and prolly have some more for you soon.

[emmaree]

This were great , and no I didnt know any of it

[yamerias]

Glass is not actually a solid but a liquid, but it would take thousands of years before your glass becomes a pool!

[emmaree]

If laid out in a straight line the avarage adult circulatory system would be long enough to circle the earth two and a half times

[yamerias]

The average male produces enough ear wax in a life to create a 1/3 scale model of the Taj Mahal!

[emmaree]

wow not sure I wanted to know that Yam ,,lol

did you know

The cashew nut belongs to the poison Ivy family!!!

If the stomach did not store food people would have to eat every 20 minutes.

[Martin]

Remembered a couple more:

Did you know that:

A peanut isn't actually a nut?
A tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable?

[emmaree]

Do you know

the cheetah is the only animal that can't retract its paws.

In ancient times Rome,oysters were so highly priced that they were worth their weight in gold

[Martin]

That's funny about the oysters. I remember reading a while ago that oysters were once so common in New York City harbour they were eaten only by the 'lower classes'. How times change, eh?

[emmaree]

Did you know the sound a camel makes is called nuzzling..

yeah oysters are fairly common here in Sydney.. I wouldn't eat anything that came out of the N,York harbor now,, lol No matter how prized.

[AuraTodd]

Your vagina self cleans it's self, so don't put any soaps up there when washing, apart from water

source. www.bbc.co.uk/bodies