New Contest Prize is cherrypickers guide

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan god

The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs and 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year. Involuntarily

Honey is the only food that does not spoil.

A right handed person on average lives 9 years longer then someone who is left handed

The name of all the continents start and end in the same letter. Asia , Europe , America , Australia ,Antarctica , Africa

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986

Every drop of seawater contains 1 billion gold atoms

The largest living thing on earth is a underground mushroom in oregon which measures three and a half miles in diameter

9 out of 10 people think Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. It was Joseph Swan

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons

 

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-It is impossible to lick your elbow.

-Your body requires 1000-1500 calories per day just to simply survive (breathing, sleeping, eating).

-Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells.

-Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream.

-The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

-You use 200 muscles to take one step.

-Muscle cells live as long as you do while skin cells live less than 24 hours.

-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

-Your brain operates on the same amount of power that would light a 10-watt light bulb.

-There are 5 million hair follicles on an average adult.

-The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.

-The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Brittanica.

 

Actually, Bovine growth hormones cannot end up in milk. Antibiotics can, however, if there are trace amounts they cannot sell the milk. If somehow milk from a tanker gets commingled into other milk, they driver is responsible then for all the milk. As far as pus, urine, mucus, well yes, that does get into the milk (I took an entire class, which was 6 hours a week for 15 weeks on milk) (I'm a food science major)

That's interesting about the osteoperosis rates. I'm not surprised though. Despite having adequate intake of calcium, Americans and similar countries have terrible diets that wreak unknown havoc on the body. I could tell you guys some horror stories about the foods you eat. In fact, I am going to make a thread about it.

 

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Coca-Cola was originally green.
?...23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contactwith extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris weighs over 1000 elephants.

There are actually two types of humans? The slightly larger and less intelligent kind, males, have protruding external genitalia called "penises" that are used for making important life decisions. Meanwhile, females have these nifty things called "vaginas" that no one understands yet, especially males

In 1879, a mail service in Belgium employed 37 cats to carry bundles of letters to villages around the town of Liege, this experiment was shorted-lived as the cats proved thoroughly undisciplined. Just plain weird...even by my standards.

The greatest recorded number of children that have been born by one mother is 69! The poor lass gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and a measly 4 sets of quadruplets. Even in the days before IVF!

Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.

Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus

13% of Americans actually believe that some parts of the moon are made of cheese...yummy

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in celcius degrees... How do they know that?


Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes. Eeewwwwww


Hydrogen is an explosive gas. Oxygen supports combustion. Yet when these are combined it is water which is used to put out fires.


Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo he was also impotent. Bwahahahahahaha!



Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Go on, try it then

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.

Spades - King David

Hearts - Charlemagne

Clubs - Alexander the Great

Diamonds - Julius Caesar

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die during the movie.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

In York, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow (except on Sundays)

On average, 90% Dutch teenagers can speak fluent English whereas only 80% American teenagers can speak fluent English. (Just incase you didnt know, English is not the first langauge of The Netherlands.)

In Texas, a recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed. Only in Texas....

No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times

The people who make school kitchens, also make electric chairs.

DThe average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

1 in every 200 people are a psychopath and they look just like everyone else......

An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.

In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. However, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.

You are most likely to be murdered or raped by a family member or a close friend (98% of all murders). Whereas being murdered by a derranged lunatic down a dark alley is very rare.

Bill "Four eyes" Gates has enough money to buy every house in Alaska, greedy *******!

Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open? Next time you feel a sneeze coming try it!

The expression "to get fired" comes from long, long ago. When clans wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down.


Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". In English this means 'The City of Angels'

In France, a five year old child can buy an alcholic drink in a bar

 

Dont ask me how to pronounce some these...

Archtophilist collects Teddy Bears

Bestiarist collects Medieval Books on Animals

Bibliophilist collects Books

Brandophilist collects Cigar Bands

Conchologist collects Shells

Copoclephilist collects Key Rings

Deltiologist collects Postcards

Dologist collects Bird's Eggs

Lepidopterist collects Butterflies

Numismatist collects Coins (had to put this one in)

Philatelist collects Stamps

Philographist collects Autographs

Phonophile collects Phonograph Records

Plangonologist collects Dolls

Receptarist collects Recipes

Vecturist collects Subway Tokens

Vexillologist collects Banners or Flags

 

Science Fact

This bit of science fact amazed me when I learned to machine metal. This fact applies to all material not just metal.

I'm going to use wood as an example because most people don't tool metal, but most have melted wood before and never realized it.

When you take a cutting tool and cut material the science of it is that what you are really do is MELTING it.

Take for instance a wood plain or better a pencil sharpener. When the edge of the cutting tool comes in contact with the wood, pressure is very great because of the small surface area of the blade edge. As pressure builds it creates heat and it is the heat that melts the wood and cause the material to separate. That is why pencil shavings are coiled. The side that melted expanded and became longer then the other side, thus creating the coil.

This same principle works in the production of Minting coins. When the die strikes the planchet it does so with great preasure. That preasure melts just the outer side of the planchet and the melted metal flows into the relief of the die.

 

Here's my "grand finale:"

Cellophane was invented 90 years ago.

Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds on the molars.

North Dakota is the only US State that has never had an earthquake.

The USA uses 25% of the world's energy.

By licking a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

A kangaroo cannot walk backwards or jump without its tail touching the ground.

Some elephants have the ability to remain standing after they die.

The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.

Footprints on the moon may remain visible for 10,000 years.

A person, on average, sleeps for 23 years.

In Japan, watermelons are grown in square glass bottles and retain a cube shape so they can be easily stacked.

There are about the same amount of humans and chickens on this planet.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

Slugs have four noses.

Mosquitoes are more attracted to blue than any other color.

The largest underground mushroom was 3.5 miles long and found in Oregon.

A snail can walk across the edge of a blade of a knife without getting cut.

It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it makes the sound of a tiny sonic boom.

Aside from humans and primates, koalas are the only animals with fingerprints.

When it is cloudy, a fly flies slower than when it is sunny.

There are some oysters in the Caribbean that can climb trees.

There are 200 million insects for every human.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has itself.

Starfish have no brains, but eyes on the tips of each leg.

 

Another fact is that the human genome world wide (across all races) is so similar that if we were all dogs we would all be golden retrievers.

And the vast majority of people thought, "that can't be right" and then tried to lick their elbow the first time they heard this fact!

Heck, I've tried before and it is still taking all of my will power to avoid "just checking" to see if it's still true.



p.s. my wife was reading over my shoulder and she started giggling, so I asked her why she was laughing and she said, "you and your daughter are both like that, I stuck a sticker on her elbow today and she tried to lick it off and didn't succeed!"

My daughter is 2 and she likes to pick up stickers with her mouth, I'm not sure why, but she does. I'm just hoping she outgrows it lol

 

zaneman:

Could you please tell us the winner?

Thanks.

 

On average you will consume 3 pubic hairs a year :eat:

 

thanks for that...

 

unless your friends are less than trustworthy...

 

Hi Everyone,
As you know this contest is closed. I will announce a winner tommorrow hopefully. I have been so busy the past few days, and I apologize for not getting this wrapped up.

 

I know the contest is over but what the heck this ine is just for fun
The results of May 1st's boycott are in, you know the one where all immigrants were asked not to purchase anything.
Shop keepers report a 4% loss of revenue for that day
And


a 60% drop in shop lifting

 

holy ... stuff, what is your source? Considering how damaging that could be to their cause, I'm interested in where this info came from.

Thanks!

P.S. I live in Mexico City North (Chigago) and one of the news stations did a poll basically asking if people agreed with the cause that the immigrants were boycotting for and the poll was 87% opposed and 13% in favor of immigration reform! Even here in Chicago where we have a huge number of immigrants (and always have) there is no support for what is going on.