The "I never knew that" thread

[Viking]

The average American has 1 testicle.

That`s wrong, can`t believe its higher than 0,99.

[Craterus]

In horse races, the favourite wins less than 30% of horse races.

In 1950, at the Las Vegas Desert Inn, an anonymous sailor made 27 straight wins with the dice at craps. The odds against such a feat are 12,467,890 to 1. The dice are now enshrined on a velvet pillow under glass.

An estimated £600,000 is lost at racetracks each year by people who lose or carelessly throw away winning tickets.

There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the 10 opening moves in a game of chess.

The highest known score for a single word in competition Scrabble is 392. In 1982, Dr Saladin Khoshnaw achieved this score for the word "caziques" which means an Indian chief.

The longest recorded Monopoly game was 1,680 hours - more than 70 days.

[doc_bean]

Most men wear it to the left.

There are more atoms in the human body than there are stars in space.

The first cars had electrical engines (as opposed to combustion engines).

A recent study shows that the size of the brain is related to intelligence.

The idea that Santa should be dressed in red is mostly due to Coca Cola advertisements, traditionally there were also green Santa's (and possibly other colours to).

[Craterus]

Boanthropy is a type of insanity in which a man thinks he is an ox.

An iguana can hold it's breath for 28 minutes.

The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.

60% of babies are born before breakfast.

The tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attatched at one end.

The oldest-known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. It's name was Fred.

[Ianofsmeg16]

60% of babies are born before breakfast

Well...Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, why would you miss it for something as unimportant as your own birth?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

60% of babies are born before breakfast.

Very convenient

[Soulforged]

60% of babies are born before breakfast.

Very convenient

Sasaki Kojiro eats babies...

[English assassin]

60% of babies are born before breakfast.

In my experience 100% of babies are born right in the middle of the ****** night

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

60% of babies are born before breakfast.

I was born just after the afternoon showing of Neighbours.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

[zukenft]

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
.

Please.
That's the most false statement of the year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia

[Craterus]

Don't blame me dude, I copied it out of a book. Anything I say in this thread is out of a book. And anyway, that didn't prove it wrong.

How about you go to Indonesia and publicly masturbate, and if you come back with a head, I'll believe you.
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The two courses at Emirates Golf Club in Dubai need two million gallons (9,092,000 litres) of water each day during the summer to keep them in condition.

The ancient Olympic Games started in 776 BC.

An exocannibal eats only enemies, while an indocannibal eats only friends.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Cats only Meow when 'talking' to humans, they communicate to each other and other animals by sense of smell

[Craterus]

Cats only Meow when 'talking' to humans, they communicate to each other and other animals by sense of smell

I thought I'd already said that?

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.

Leo Tolstoy's wife had to copy his mabuscript for War and Peace (by hand) seven times.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.

South America?

[discovery1]

In 1950, at the Las Vegas Desert Inn, an anonymous sailor made 27 straight wins with the dice at craps. The odds against such a feat are 12,467,890 to 1. The dice are now enshrined on a velvet pillow under glass.

The Desert Inn has since been imploded and replaced by The Wynn.

[Viking]

There are more atoms in the human body than there are stars in space.

Not true..

In my experience 100% of babies are born right in the middle of the ****** night.

Yup. Because that when the human immune system is least active during 24 hours. A disease most likely strikes at night.

[Craterus]

South America?

Yeah.. good point. The book I'm copying out of is written by Noel Botham. If any of you want to look him up and send him your points via email, I'm sure there'll be a way to contact him somehow via the net.

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

Two out of every five women in the US dye their hair.

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.

[Brutus]

Yeah.. good point. The book I'm copying out of is written by Noel Botham. If any of you want to look him up and send him your points via email, I'm sure there'll be a way to contact him somehow via the net.

One could of course argue that North and South America are one continent, making the statement correct. Although it is only valid in English anyway... (for example, it's "Europa", "Azië" and "Australië" in Dutch)

[Sasaki Kojiro]

One could of course argue that North and South America are one continent, making the statement correct.

But then it would have to be Eurasia

[zukenft]

How about you go to Indonesia and publicly masturbate, and if you come back with a head, I'll believe you.

I once lived in Indonesia. Publicly masturbating would give you jail, at most. There's just no way a democratic state would give a punishment like that.
Perhaps the book's fact is about medieval Indonesia.

for the fun fact: AK-47 is highly reliable, in that it can be dipped in mud for a whole day and still able to fire afterwards.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Jacques Chirac is the co-prince of Andorra, the other prince being the bishop of the Spanish town of la Seu d'Urgell.


The Louvre and Versailles combined attract only half as many visitors as Disneyland Paris.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The Louvre and Versailles combined attract only half as many visitors as Disneyland Paris.

perhaps something to do with capacity...

[English assassin]

perhaps something to do with capacity...

yeah, cranial capacity...

[doc_bean]

The Louvre and Versailles combined attract only half as many visitors as Disneyland Paris.

I'm afraid I'm somewhat guilty of adding to this statistic

But hey, I was 12 or something!

[Craterus]

Ants always fall over to the right side when intoxicated.

Dolphins are the only species, other than humans, that have sex for pleasure.

The credibility of the above facts is questionable.

[ArcticSonata]

My fact: Pink Floyd are Better than Zeppelin[/QUOTE]

My Fact Iron Maiden chrushes them both!

[ArcticSonata]

Actually I am quite certain that Chimps and Lions kill their previous rivals offspring when a new, dominant male takes over the group. They do it to weed out any trace of the previous alpha males DNA. And Bees too I think.

It would be rude to just spilt hairs and not produce any useless snipets of information thoug, so here goes...

70% of all statistics are made up.

Anything that cannot be proved with mathematics is opinion and not fact.

The farthest a marshmallow has been blown out of one nostril and caught in the mouth of a catcher is 4.96 m (16 ft 3.5 in), by launcher Scott Jeckel of Delavan, Illinois, USA, and catcher Ray Perisin of Peoria, Illinois, USA, on the set of Guinness World Records: Primetime in Los Angeles, California, USA on August 13, 1999.

LOL and who came up with those facts? They have a 7/10 percent chance of being wrong! Can you mathematically be proven

[English assassin]

[Pedantry on] Its perfectly possible that "70% of all statistics are made up" is part of the 30% that are not...[pedantry off]

although it doesn't seem very likely I admit.

[Strike For The South]

A human can eat 2lbs of strawberry yogurt and still be hungry

[littlelostboy]

Might be a bit late, this reply, but I found this old e-mail of mine and thought it might be good to post in here.


If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you
>> > would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of
>>coffee.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > (Hardly seems worth it.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months,
>> > enough gas is produced
>> >
>> > > to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
>> > >
>> > > (Now that's more like it!)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The human heart creates enough pressure when it
>> > pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
>> > >
>> > > (O.M.G.!)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
>> > >
>> > > (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > A cockroach will live nine days without its head
>> > before it starves to death. (Creepy.)
>> > >
>> > > (I'm still not over the pig.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories
>> > an hour.
>> > >
>> > > (Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > 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.
>> > >
>> > > ("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's
>> > like a human jumping the length of a football field.
>> > >
>> > > (30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
>> > >
>> > > (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
>> > >
>> > > (I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality
>> > over quantity)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Butterflies taste with their feet.
>> > >
>> > > (Something I always wanted to know.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
>> > >
>> > > (Hmmmmmm........)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Right-handed people live, on average, nine years
>> > longer than left-handed people.
>> > >
>> > > (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the
>> > difference?)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
>> > >
>> > > (OK, so that would be a good thing....)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > A cat's urine glows under a black light.
>> > >
>> > > (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
>> > >
>> > > (I know some people like that.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Starfish have no brains.
>> > >
>> > > (I know some people like that too.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Polar bears are left-handed.
>> > >
>> > > (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Humans and dolphins are the only species that have
>> > sex for pleasure.
>> > >
>> > > (What about that pig??)