Did you know... [Curiosities]

[Zeppelin]

I feel the need to share with you some daily interesting and fun stuff i get in a tumblr page.

Lets collect stuff like this in here: 


The farthest away you can be from a McDonalds in the US is 107 miles.

Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.

Man robbed a bank for $1 so he could be arrested and sent to jail for free medical health care.

A man wanted to live like Bear Grylls for a year, died in less than a month.

About 200 calories are burned during a fierce sex session, which is equivalent to running 15 minutes on a treadmill.

The only plane allowed to fly on 9/11 after the attacks was a plane from San Diego to Miami delivering anti-venom to a man bitten by a highly poisonous snake; it was accompanied by two jet fighters.

Suicide bomber attempted bombing in Moscow but accidentally blew herself up thanks to.. a spam text from her mobile phone operator which triggered the bomb.

Cops "mark" your drivers side tail light or trunk with their fingerprints when they pull you over, just in case something goes bad for them.

In 1979 a woman jumped from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, only to be blown back onto the 85th floor. Her only injury was a borken hip.

Mosquitoes are more attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas or had beer. If your blood group is O, they love you.

In WWII, Japan killed 4 million more people than the Nazis, practiced Mengele-like human experimentation, cannibalized and tortures POWs, and forced women into military sex slavery.

[fdrjk]

The farthest away you can be from a McDonalds in the US is 107 miles.

haha 

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If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Dalmatians are born without spots.

The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).

Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

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 received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.

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If you had $1 billion and spent $1,000 a day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.

It costs the state of California $50,000 per year to keep just 1 inmate in jail.

At around 15 calories per "serving", sperm contains the same protein as the white of a large egg, along with vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, potassium, vitamin B12 and zinc.

A marshmallow hitting the earth at the speed of light would cause an explosion equal in energy to the power of a few dozen hydrogen bombs.

Ingesting silver can turn one's skin permanently blue.

After drilling for two decades through more than two miles of antartic ice, Russian scientists are on the verge of entering a vast, dark lake that hasn't been touched by light for more than 20 million years.

Porn actress Sunny Lane is managed by her parents, who watch her performances and give evaluations.

[Sgt. Dick]

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

Hot Bitches Thread 

At around 15 calories per "serving", sperm contains the same protein as the white of a large egg, along with vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, potassium, vitamin B12 and zinc.

Going to make sure my wife reads this, that way she will see its always been about her 

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The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

That's a contridiction. You mean "Homonym"
EDIT: misread.. I thought it was choosing alternative definitions... however this is debatable because I see this happen all the time.

Lot's of this stuff in this thread is patently false. Although it's still a good read.

[The Happy Friar]

Goats never sleep.  They live ~15 years or so.

[The Happy Friar]

The farthest away you can be from a McDonalds in the US is 107 miles.

*except in Alaska 

[Zeppelin]

It is illegal to be overweight in Japan.

Nike's slogan "Just Do It" came from the last words of a murderer on death row.

The US once set off a nuke in space to see what would happen, and it disabled one-third of all communication satellites.

Andrew Jackson was the only US president in history to ever pay off the national debt in full.

LOL used to mean Lots of Love before the internet.

Hitler was Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" in the 1938.

In Tokyo there are Cat Cafés where you can go and pet different kinds of cats at an hourly fee.

You can't kill yourself bu holding your breath.

"Woot", "noob" and "retweet" have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

[The Happy Friar]

LOL used to mean Lots of Love before the internet.

I was around before the internet and on BBS's it meant Lots of Love and Laugh out Loud.  Context of the conversation was taken in to consideration.

Here's one:

Apple has a patent on sliding an image across a screen to bring a device out of sleep.

[Zeppelin]

In January 1992, 28800 bath toys fell of a cargo ship in the Pacific. Some washed up but some rubber duckies circumnavigated the globe and were recently found.

[Zeppelin]

Horses are able to learn and memorize human words and can hear the human voice better than even dogs.

Hitler suffered from chronic flatulence.

A woman trying to commit suicide from the Eiffel Tower, landed on a car and later married the owner of the car

[|iR|Focalor]

Horses are able to learn and memorize human words and can hear the human voice better than even dogs.

Hitler suffered from chronic flatulence.

Coincidentally, Hitler trained his prize thoroughbred horse to fart on command, which made him quite popular at equestrian parties.

[|iR|Focalor]

The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

True, but technically (at least in my opinion) it wasn't even a motorcycle. It was a bicycle with a tiny little 7ci engine taped to it. They didn't start making the first REAL v-twin motors until just before 1910, and even those were tiny compared to the beasts S&S produce today. Single cylinder motors on bikes are still used today occasionally. I believe Buell had a couple single cylinder models. Those fuckers were "stoopid fast" too.

[Zeppelin]

In Ohio, it is illegal to get fish drunk. 

The average man has 11 erections per day and 9 per night.