Interesting Trivia's and Facts :)

rootaxs

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A ducks' quack does not echo.
It takes seven years for a lobster to weigh one pound!
Even a blind chameleon can change colors to match its environment!
The lifespan of a tastebud is 10 days
2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
The blue whale's tongue alone is heavier than most elephants.
The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. eeewwwww
The billionth digit of pi is 9.
The most vitamin C in a fruit is in it's pith (skin).
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.
Oak trees don't have acorns until they are at least 50 years old!
The Great Horned Owl can turn its head 270 degrees.
The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.
A pulsar is a small star made up of neutrons so densely packed together that if one the size of a silver dollar landed on earth, it would weigh approximately 100 million tons.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.
The placement of a donkeys' eyes enable it to see all four feet at the same time.
It takes 17 facial muscles to smile but 42 to frown. :) :) :) :) :) :D
A 'jiffy' is a unit of time: 3.3357 times 10 raised to the -11 (3.3357x10^-11) seconds. So named for the length of time it takes light to travel a cm in a vacuum.
The seeing-eye dog, or any dog trained to guide the blind, cannot tell a red light from a green one. When it lead its master across the street, it watches the traffic flow to tell when it is safe to cross. :Q
Another name for a Camelopard is a Giraffe
 

rootaxs

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<< They are interesting, but I've seen 'em before. Sorry bud >>

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Aww... Oh well. :) At least someone else liked it. hehehe




<< Imagination is more important then knowledge -- Albert Einstein >>



Interesting, i just took that line off my e-mail sig after almost a year of use. :)
 

samgau

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some cool suff in there....

wait till i tell my friends some of these facts....
 

GasX

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Fact 1 - A duck's quack DOES echo

I won't address the other falsities in this repost...
 

Nemesis77

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Here are few more :).

Curiosity killed the... er, U-Boat.
During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back.

Casualties of War
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

the secret weapon
During the WW2 German U-Boat was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.

Armageddon
An Armageddon meteor came within 280,000 miles of the Earth on May 21, 1996. This could have been devastating to life on Earth. Fortunately for us, and Bruce Willis, it missed!
 

DaejangNim

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<< The seeing-eye dog, or any dog trained to guide the blind, cannot tell a red light from a green one. When it lead its master across the street, it watches the traffic flow to tell when it is safe to cross. >>


so if it sees there is no traffic yet the light is still red it will try to cross, but then what if a car comes around the corner ?