hmmmm... interesting - post your facts!

[boxcar_bruises]

ok, i think that knowledge is a very powerful thing and that we, as humans should try to expand our own boundaries of knowledge. that's why i'm starting an 'interesting fact' thread to further ourselves as human beings, so post you interesting fact to enlighten us.

interesting fact number 1:
a pig orgasms for approx. 30 mins

[cptn_crunch]

a judge in my home city got prosecuted for using a penis pump during proceedings. not very knowledgable, but interesting...ok, time for someting serious though...
your brain weighs 2 percent of our total body weight. it uses 20 percent of your bodies total energy.

[prozac mnms]

dolphins are the only other mammals, besides humans, that have sex for fun

[MaybeOneDay]

my penis is smaller than yours

[sweethypocrisy]

my penis is smaller than yours
nuh uh.

[aolsux]

my penis is smaller than yours
thank you, finally #2 on the list

[aolsux]

your body core temperature rises 2 degrees when masturbating, and your eyes dialate at point of orgasm

[MaybeOneDay]

nuh uh.
my penis challenges your penis to a duel.

colonel mustard from clue style, biznatch!

[r0flc0pt3rz]

there are more connections in your brain than atoms in the universe.

[ohlookitspaul]

the clitoris has twice as many nerve endings as the penis

[allelish]

Seaguls are the only birds that can shit whilst flying. All the others have to stop and shit.

[brandnewtbs23]

Seaguls are the only birds that can shit whilst flying. All the others have to stop and shit.
hahaha

[MrChainsaw389]

The male "g spot" is in his ass. So if anyone ever wondered why guys would be gay, there's one reason.

[Mercy Medical]

Pig's dicks are the same shape as their tail, curly.

[Bishop]

The chickpea is neither a chick nor a pea.

[scitsofreaky]

The tiger beetle is the fastest animal, when scaled, it can run over 300 miles an hour. It runs so fast that it can't see when it is moving.

[Bishop]

Sexual terms

Rodeo - This is where you have a few friends hide in your closet and then you start banging a girl and you get her doggystyle and start pulling her hair and then once you reach this point your friends burst out of the closet yelling "yee-haw! Ride her right!"

I want to try that sometime.

[(FallFrom)Grace]

the only interesting facts i know are the origins of some phrases:

the whole nine yards... the length of the magazines used in rifles/machine guns in WW1, so someone would say "how much should i shoot?" and the reply would be "the whole 9 yards"

its in the bag... came from private members bills in the house of commons (uk). someone would request a bill to be put foreward and the relevant MP would reply "its in the bag" reffering to where you post the bills.

[mondeoman]

your body core temperature rises 2 degrees when masturbating, and your eyes dialate at point of orgasm
And of course, you'd know that. haha

[shrguy]

Babies are born without knee caps.
The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee.
On average cows poop 16 times per day.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
Honey is the only food that will not spoil.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
22% of us skip lunch daily.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Spider monkeys like banana daiquiris.
In 1954, Bob Hawke was immortalized by the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 12 seconds. Bob later became the Prime Minister of Australia.
At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart.
Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
What's the most-shoplifted book in the United States? The Bible.
The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
In 1845 Boston had an ordinance banning bathing unless you had a doctor's prescription.
Pound for Pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars!

[Coronary Parasite]

your body core temperature rises 2 degrees when masturbating, and your eyes dialate at point of orgasm
i need to test this out

[ohlookitspaul]

a whale's penis is called a dork.

[brandnewtbs23]

a whale's penis is called a dork.
hahahahaha i like that one

[aolsux]

a whale's penis is called a dork.
never knew that fact

a male honey bee blows off his genitals when he ejaculates

[richter915]

never knew that fact

a male honey bee blows off his genitals when he ejaculates
that's just horrible...poor honeybee...poor poor honeybee.

the barnacle has the longest penis in proportion to it's body size. If you want a scaled comparison...if you're a guy, you can penetrate a girl 10 feet away from you I think.

[allelish]

I think a camel's dick is called a dude

[The Bled 13]

I think you suck off a lot of dude's.

[allelish]

I KNOW that yo' moma does

[The Bled 13]

Shit, that was a good one.

Interesting Fact #12

Allelish was born with a vagina and two huge sweaty saggy nuts. You are a fa.ggot.

[shrguy]

my name is michael

[aolsux]

Shit, that was a good one.

Interesting Fact #12

Allelish was born with a vagina and two huge sweaty saggy nuts. You are a fa.ggot.
hahahaha

[brandnewtbs23]

whoa paul changed his avatiar

thats like the first time since ive been here

but i could be wrong

[Hey Mr. Destiny]

Babies are born without knee caps.
The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee.
On average cows poop 16 times per day.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
Honey is the only food that will not spoil.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
22% of us skip lunch daily.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Spider monkeys like banana daiquiris.
In 1954, Bob Hawke was immortalized by the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 12 seconds. Bob later became the Prime Minister of Australia.
At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart.
Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
What's the most-shoplifted book in the United States? The Bible.
The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
In 1845 Boston had an ordinance banning bathing unless you had a doctor's prescription.
Pound for Pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars!
Wow, you must drink a lot of Snapple

[brandnewtbs23]

an octopus' testacles are located in his head

[richter915]

barnacles stand on their heads and eat with their feet.

[aolsux]

the force that a dolphin ejaculates, could kill a human

[ohlookitspaul]

whoa paul changed his avatiar

thats like the first time since ive been here

but i could be wrong
i had that other one for about 2 or 3 months i think, i was getting sick of it. i've changed mine a few times since the time i've been here. i'll stick with this one until i vomit at the sight of it.

[ohlookitspaul]

the average male ejaculation goes 28 mph

[gmc14]

your body core temperature rises 2 degrees when masturbating, and your eyes dialate at point of orgasm
yeah, and my cheeks turn redish too.
Oh, and my hand gets wet and kinda sticky.

[aolsux]

I beg to differ..
on a side note I've been banned from sea world forever..........

Edit: 1.9k post.
hahaha

[gmc14]

I rarely have speed ones, like actual shots, I guess I do it too often or theres not enough tension or something, but mines just like its over-flowing, its not fast at all :(

[Juliet R Delta]

you can't tell the gender of a hyena by looking at it. hyenas are pseudohemaphrodites... and the females are socially dominant.

[gmc14]

you can't tell the gender of a hyena by looking at it. hyenas are pseudohemaphrodites... and the females are socially dominant.
thats hot!

42% of american women can blech on commmand

[gmc14]

thats hot!

42% of american women can blech on commmand
belch, :P I dun know what a blech is, sry

[popdisaster00]

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.


:dweeba48:

[gmc14]

25% of mental health workers admit to sexual relaitons with their clinets

[FalloutGuy]

By the looks of this...it would appear that I am not the only one watching that new show on Spike TV. :lol2:

[shrguy]

The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.

[boxcar_bruises]

i probably shouldn't have started this post with a sexual fact about pigs, but keep em coming ('i love those dick jokes' -Chasing Amy)

dogs can't look up

[Bishop]

Fact

I was so close to getting laid last night.


...


Not

[No Control]

the only interesting facts i know are the origins of some phrases:

the whole nine yards... the length of the magazines used in rifles/machine guns in WW1, so someone would say "how much should i shoot?" and the reply would be "the whole 9 yards"

its in the bag... came from private members bills in the house of commons (uk). someone would request a bill to be put foreward and the relevant MP would reply "its in the bag" reffering to where you post the bills.


Shit thats interesting, I never knew that, Thanks.

George Washington grew hemp in his farm

Helen Keller was a communist and was just waiting for the Red Army to take over the U.S.

Theodore Roosevelt was the one who coined the phrase "Good the the Last Drop" when Maxwell House asked him in a letter what did he think of their coffee.

And there are a ton more historical ones I know if interested.

Edit: 500th post.

[Juliet R Delta]

belch, :P I dun know what a blech is, sry

blech is what you say when you pull a pube out of your mouth. LOL

[shrguy]

A snail can sleep for three years.
Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day!
The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main engredients.
A toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria from flushing .
No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
On some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees.

[meh_indeed]

A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.
An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.
850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.
In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body.
In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.
Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life
Back in 1919 the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.
All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes.
In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans.
During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states.
In the 17th century, Sawney Beane, his wife, eight sons, six daughters, eighteen grandsons, and fourteen granddaughters, who were all born in incest, were a family of cannibals that lived in caves in Scotland. They murdered hundreds of men, women and children and then ate them. The entire family was executed in Edinburgh without a trial.

[mat1419]

this is my favorite thread, so i'll add to it:

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb (boondocks rule).
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

[venus/bacchus]

Helen Keller was a communist and was just waiting for the Red Army to take over the U.S.
Just one more reason to hate Helen Keller

[shrguy]

7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.

[The Bled 13]

I have the worlds biggest wang. 67 Inches.

[The Bled 13]

Hahahaha.

[showerscene]

The word hysterectomy comes from the female body part the uterus, which coincidentally was also one of my nicknames is college...

[popdisaster00]

No one knows who designed the first American Flag. .

Umm didn't that woman make it? who sewed the entire thing herself?

[popdisaster00]

this is my favorite thread, so i'll add to it:

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb (boondocks rule).
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

that was so much fun to read

[prozac mnms]

The word hysterectomy comes from the female body part the uterus, which coincidentally was also one of my nicknames is college...
it's also where we get the word "hysteria". yes, the uterus makes you insane.
your college nickname was uterus? i think that's an interesting fact in it's self

[HerHopelessHero]

more people get killed from goats then from plane crashes every year.

[The Bled 13]

Haha.

[im_random]

Umm didn't that woman make it? who sewed the entire thing herself?

Betsy Ross? That's what I always thought anyway

[cptn_crunch]

blech is what you say when you pull a pube out of your mouth. LOL
so im in the net lab here at my college, there are a lot of pissed of kids in here trying to write their final papers and they're pissed because i keep kackling at your post. i bow before your hilarity!! :D

[sleepygrlgreen]

I rarely have speed ones, like actual shots, I guess I do it too often or theres not enough tension or something, but mines just like its over-flowing, its not fast at all :(

:: aroused::

[ohlookitspaul]

Umm didn't that woman make it? who sewed the entire thing herself?
that's one of those old wives tale things. like washington chopping the apple tree

[emberNenvelope]

oysters can change their gender. wow.

[mat1419]

i have a ton of these things now...i think some are repeats though:

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolca noconiosis.
The only other word with the same number of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolca noconioses, its plural.
The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamate aturi-
pukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuak itnatahu, a New Zealand hill.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch.'
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II, who fathered over 160 children.
There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters. This word is "therein," and the words within it are: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."
The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest-rated American program in the history of Korean television. "Chachi" is Korean for "penis."
And the best for last..... Turtles can breathe through their butts.

[venus/bacchus]

Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch.'
The book is actually just called "Naked Lunch" and it's by William S. Burroughs. I tried reading it, but I hate his style.

[mat1419]

The book is actually just called "Naked Lunch" and it's by William S. Burroughs. I tried reading it, but I hate his style.

yeah...but turtles can breathe out their butts dude!

[SkaBum14]

yeah...but turtles can breathe out their butts dude!

So whatever you do, DO NOT do butts with a turtle. You'll be a beastialitous (I just made that up) necrophiliac in no time.

[Bishop]

Tony Danza first started his career in porn.

[mat1419]

this one blew my mind...before Prince wrote madonna or bruce springsteen's songs, he dabbled in punk and wrote most of the sex pistol's songs

[dayafterdayroks]

Tony Danza first started his career in porn.


hahahahah

[SkaBum14]

Tony Danza first started his career in porn.

And I suppose like every other character for any show he's ever been in, he just went by Tony...

[igotthemic]

you know all the people during the french revolution why got their heads chopped off by the gulliotine? medical researchers believe you'd be able to see for 10 to 15 more seconds after your head was chopped off. hahahaha.

[sleepygrlgreen]

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

[xCopelandx]

the recent earthquake in the indian ocean generated enough energy to boil 40 gallons of water for every person on earth.

[specialgirl87]

Alright heres some stuff i thought was intresting............

>More than 400,000 Americans die from diseases related to cigarette smoking each year. More than 150,000 Americans die of alcohol abuse each year. But in 10,000 years of usage, no one has ever died from marijuana.
>At least 2 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.
>Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds
> A g-string is part of a violin
:lol2:

[Mad Caddie]

In 1954, Bob Hawke was immortalized by the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 12 seconds. Bob later became the Prime Minister of Australia
Dude, Australia pride!

A pinhead as hot as the center of the sun can kill a human from over a kilometer away

[SuperWoman7700]

A pinhead as hot as the center of the sun can kill a human from over a kilometer away

Whoa. That is cool.

[LoyalSubject]

But in 10,000 years of usage, no one has ever died from marijuana.
That is so fucking untrue.
You can't overdose on pot, you can get high and get in a car accident but you can't die from the pot itself like with heroin.

[El_Jeffe]

EVER WONDER
Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?
Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

[LoyalSubject]

Ya I know buddy, I have a brief history with things of this matter. But you can still get cancer from pot just like ciggerettes.
That has yet to be confirmed. Cigarettes are still worse for you.

[Louise Heng]

EVER WONDER
Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Or eyeliner. It's weird. I've tried, but then i just end up poking myself in the eye.


Drugs are bad. Don't do drugs ;)

[LoyalSubject]

are cigarettes and alcohol drugs?

[LoyalSubject]

oh well

[LoyalSubject]

...I hope California has an earthquake

[Bishop]

Oh here is a good lie:
I'm the sexiest man alive and that has ever lived.

I definetly agree with that.

[Bishop]

....negative Scene Points!
:(

[charly horse]

In the state of maryland oral sex is illegal.

[specialgirl87]

You can't overdose on pot, you can get high and get in a car accident but you can't die from the pot itself like with heroin.

Haa 'IN YO FACE'
I TOLD YOU :lol2:

[deathgrin]

Brad Pitt is a fan of Interpol, believe it or not it's on Rolling Stones(issue 633, page 46).

[specialgirl87]

C'mon Loyal, I know you want to confess you undying love for me.


"hey stop tryin to mac on my cyber boyfriend" :lol2: