Pointless Facts!
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PaT_ replied on Sat Apr 12, 2003 @ 5:45am |
 Coolness: 117200 | -If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
-If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. -The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. -A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. -A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) -Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. -The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. -The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. -The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. -Some lions mate over 50 times a day. -Butterflies taste with their feet. -The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. -Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. -Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. -A cat's urine glows under a black light. -An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Starfish have no brains. Polar bears are left-handed. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» somekid replied on Sat Apr 12, 2003 @ 2:34pm |
 Coolness: 85910 | What the fuck is that lion doing it so much if it's not for pleasure. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Sat Apr 12, 2003 @ 3:22pm |
 Coolness: 686495 | Lions, porcupines, dolphins and monkies have sex for pleasure, and out of those, dolphins and monkies are the only animals other than humans that masturbate for pleasure. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» G__ replied on Sat Apr 12, 2003 @ 3:38pm |
| Coolness: 142270 | best thread ever...i do decree |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cloak replied on Sat Apr 12, 2003 @ 3:42pm |
 Coolness: 58330 | tell me, how can dolphins masturbate ? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» G__ replied on Sat Apr 12, 2003 @ 3:44pm |
| Coolness: 142270 | they rub themselves on each other, or you read weird fucking posts about people who like masterbating and having sex with dolphins...but really, i don't know |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Sat Apr 12, 2003 @ 4:17pm |
| Coolness: 686495 | dolphins rub themselves on smooth rocks or on the ocean floor. Dolphins in captivity have been known to rub themselves on the glass windows of their aquariums. Dolphins have also been sexually agressive towards swimming humans and are actually not as friendly as TV makes them out to be. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nter replied on Sat Apr 12, 2003 @ 6:53pm |
 Coolness: 93400 | there where more people who watched bay watch in 1993 than there where jewish people in the world |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» little_sarah replied on Sat Apr 12, 2003 @ 10:59pm |
 Coolness: 122345 | i have 10 toes |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AngryChinchilla replied on Sun Apr 13, 2003 @ 10:54am |
 Coolness: 56965 | did u know koalas are actually a pretty vicious animal
but because they eat those plants, it gives them a "high" effect thats why they lay around all day and sleep n chill otherwise they would kill u and all ur children! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Miss_Amanda replied on Sun Apr 13, 2003 @ 12:49pm |
 Coolness: 161450 | she's right: the eucalyptus leaves get them high so it isn't uncommon to see signs such as "beware of falling koalas" because they do fall off the branches |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Apr 14, 2003 @ 12:54am |
| Coolness: 686495 | eucalyptus get's you high?
I'm going shopping... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» kitkat replied on Mon Apr 14, 2003 @ 1:01am |
 Coolness: 72155 | i think you gotta be a koala....sigh |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» djAmalgam replied on Mon Apr 14, 2003 @ 1:04am |
| Coolness: 106695 | The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.' The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. Cat's urine glows under a black light. The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star. On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are members of the peach family. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050 The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse." Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T. The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes. In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes. Charlie Brown's father was a barber. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.) Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean. Ingrown toenails are hereditary. The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan. On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15. In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role. Only humans and horses have hymens. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan. We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.) Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries. Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats. The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California... The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus. In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests ChuckYeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.' Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. 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 pneumonoultramicroscopics-ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol-canoconioses, its plural. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatan- gihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai- whenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A." A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million. There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo. Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility. In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin. The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile". Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order. Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism". When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau." Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd." The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold. The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore. Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth. Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement. The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross. Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker. Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons." Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh 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, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein. Canola oil is actually grapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. "Evian" spelled backvards is naive. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright. A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box. Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world. Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts." There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill. ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.) What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912. It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces. In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time. Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off. The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Mon Apr 14, 2003 @ 2:16am |
 Coolness: 2750380 | left handed people are naturally smarter than right handed people ;) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» somekid replied on Mon Apr 14, 2003 @ 2:37pm |
| Coolness: 85910 | The colosal squid has the bigest eyes they're the size of diner plates.(Not the giant squid any more) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Bunnytronix replied on Thu Apr 24, 2003 @ 5:31pm |
 Coolness: 153415 | The uterus of a pregnent women weighs over 1 KG. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» G__ replied on Thu Apr 24, 2003 @ 5:35pm |
| Coolness: 142270 | i LOVE this thread alot
there is some great stuff here you are only as tall as you're arms length finger tip to finger tip |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Bunnytronix replied on Thu Apr 24, 2003 @ 5:37pm |
| Coolness: 153415 | and PAul.. nice copy paste action there... next time you should consider spreading them around. keep them in your notes.. pull one out per day.. makes you look knowledgable... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» daFTWin replied on Thu Apr 24, 2003 @ 5:56pm |
 Coolness: 277340 | man why do pigs have all the fucking luck... shiiiiit. |
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