This is a thread some people might enjoy, just post any useless or interesting facts here.. ill start it off

Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. Thats more than sharks.

The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.

Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.(lmao)

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs melted into it.

i think thats enough for now.. everyone add your own

Edited at 23:32 Mon 27/08/07 (BST)

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Lmao!

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

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

13 people are killed each year by vending machine?s falling on them.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.

Edited at 23:52 Mon 27/08/07 (BST)

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!

There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a five-card poker game.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually
had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves.

One of Hewlett Packard's first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. (i might have to try this one)

The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."

There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one. (pretty cool... i think so anyway lol)

There was me thinking it was just the smirnoff ice advert making that up

Diet Coke was only invented in 1982 and Coca-cola was originally green.

Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century.

It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.

The yo-yo was originally a weapon used in the Philippine jungles

Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why

It is illegal to hunt camels in Arizona. hahaha

if u unscrew ur navel ur bum will fall off...FACT
you cant sneeze with your eyes open if you do your eyeballs will fly out...again FACT...well maybe hehe

BAHAHAHA!! these are way hilarious!

In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

awww this thread died.. it was my baby.. rip

Awww... I liked it!

I just found an interesting one....

An average English person only uses 4% of the English language when speaking....

Thats not a lot...!!

if u linked your veins arteries and cappileries together it would stretch 2 and a half times around the world

a person that has hairy toes is meant to be an honest person

x x

it's impossible to break an egg with your index finger and thumb at both ends squeezing tightly .

From 1939 to 1942, there was a undersea post office in the Bahamas.

In Las Vegas, casinos do not have any clocks.

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.

Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years. (HA!!)

Think I miht need to change my diet and way of life!


No human artefacts can be seen from the moon. NO the great wall of China CAN NOT be seen by the naked eye!

And if u did u would be dead!!