Little Known Facts

[Lost in the Oilfield]

Crazy facts are great

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce 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 that it could squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's 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. (Warning: 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 up to 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a entire football field. (30 minutes....lucky pig.... Can you imagine 30 minute orgasm??)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond or the sea?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life.... quality over quantity!)

Butterflies can taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmmm........ won't go there.)

Right-handed people live, on an average, live nine years longer than left-handed people. (Glad to be right handed.)

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???)

 

[Lost in the Oilfield]

Crazy facts are great

(comments are from the website)

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce 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 that it could squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's 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. (Warning: 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 up to 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a entire football field.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond or the sea?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life.... quality over quantity!)

Butterflies can taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmmm........ won't go there.)

Right-handed people, on an average, live nine years longer than left-handed people. (Glad to be right handed.)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (Hmmm, I think that's 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???)

 

[Kristen]

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (Hmmm, I think that's a good thing.)

for real?but what about my elephant...

 

[Skorian]

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (Hmmm, I think that's a good thing.)

for real?but what about my elephant...

How do you find this stuff? That takes real talent.

 

[Kristen]

^^um....easy, its my pet Elephant, Baloon, bouncing off dining table.
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Guinness Book
Record Holders


Aaron Studham of Massachusetts set a record for highest hair, at 24 inches.
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now that takes talent....

 

[Kristen]

BY JAMES HENRY COOK.

IF there can be any question regarding the statement that "All foods are medicine and all medicines are food," there is certainly no question that olives and olive oil are both food and medicine. Olive oil provides the purest fat obtainable and in it bacteria cannot live. Those who recognizes its wonderful medicinal properties and the many uses to which it can be put will never fail to keep a bottle of pure olive oil in the house. One cannot be made acquainted with olive oil too young. In olive growing countries many children, as soon as born, are anointed with olive oil. This provides a far safer cleanser for infants delicate skin than soap and water and they have been known to thus gain weight prior to food of any kind being administered by the mouth. It also provides for them the best possible preventative for constipation where dairy milk is given. It is far preferable also to dusting powder to prevent chafing after the bath.

For adults also it is far superior to the nauseating cod-liver oil; or when emulsified with malt extract (Olivhonie) to the much advertised cod-liver oil and malt. Dr. A.B. Olsen says, "A very wholesome preparation for those who are in decline or lacking in flesh, is olive oil combined with barley malt." Unlike mineral oils, such as refined paraffin, that are merely mechanical in action, pure olive oil mixes with other foods and assists their digestion and the natural disposal of waste matter. A spoonful of olive oil sipped by speakers who suffer with throat troubles will be found very beneficial. For gastric catarrh and like digestive troubles, olive oil will be found of great service -use one tablespoonful of olive oil and one of honey in a glass of hot water twice a day.

To most it is highly palatable taken by itself, but for those who find it otherwise, it can be taken with orange, lemon or grape juice. There is nothing like it for coughs, colds and sore throats - a teaspoonful kept in the mouth as long as possible becomes thoroughly emulsified, and is easily assimilated by the weakest digestions. Swimmers have found it excellent for keeping out the cold, when their bodies have first been well rubbed with it. It is quickly absorbed by the skin, and if rubbed over the body it is said to have the power of sustaining life for long periods, even when no food is taken by the stomach. Many persons given up by physicians to die of consumption have regained health and life form the use of pure olive oil. Those who desire a clear complexion should use it freely. The warm complexion of the Italian and Sicilian women and their clear skins are a standing testimony to the virtues of the oil which holds so important a place in their national dietary.

In all cases of want of assimilation, emaciation, or where there is a consumptive tendency, the oil is invaluable. The journal of the American Medical Association, quoting from Dr. Paget in The Lancet, states that "Splendid results are derived in treatment of typhoid fever by slowly administering every twelve or fifteen hours an enema of a pint of olive oil. The daily administration is discontinued after one week, and then may be given only when the temperature is elevated, or the bowels constipated. If diarrhoea is present olive oil should always be given." He claims that the death rate under this treatment is nil. These are but a few of the many uses pure olive oil can be put to, for it is not only the finest fresh former known, but also the most easily digested. In addition it has many uses for external purposes.

Lord Walsingham wrote in the daily press, "A few drops rubbed on a wasp sting will immediately stop the burning sensation and prevent swelling. I have tried it with invariable success, notably in the case of a keeper in an almost fainting condition, with some thirty stings in the back of the neck. All other remedies I have tried are distinctly inferior to olive oil." For burns, sores, cuts, scratches, sore feet, chapped hands, rough, broken or sunburnt skins an application of olive oil will have a wonderful healing effect. Sufferers from earache find a few drops of warm olive oil work wonders.

When "safety" cycles first came into general use, following the "penny-farthing" machines, the writer used to spend most of his holidays cycling. In those days saddles were not as comfortable as they are to-day. Many of his holidays would have been curtailed but for the wonderful healing properties of olive oil applied to the affected parts. Amateur gardeners, of both sexes, find a spot or two of olive oil rubbed in to the hands smooth and white, while dirt and grime will be much more readily removed. The same treatment applied to rough hands will soon render them smooth and of presentable appearance. For lumbago and similar troubles olive oil mixed with cayenne pepper and applied to the affected parts by means of a woollen bandage will do much to create the circulation necessary to remove the trouble. One of the best possible exercises to prevent lumbago and similar troubles is to rub the body all over after a bath, with the hands, using the minimum drops of olive oil with the maximum of rubbing. No olive oil should, when rubbing has ceased, be left on the skin to grease the clothes. Rubbed into the scalp the day previous to the hair being shampooed will produce growth and silkiness. Rubbed well into the skin prior to sunbathing will prevent burns and blisters. The rubbing of olive oil into the back and chest of a delicate child will do much to ensure robust health and fitness.

 

[Bluey]

^^um....easy, its my pet Elephant, Baloon, bouncing off dining table.
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Guinness Book
Record Holders


Aaron Studham of Massachusetts set a record for highest hair, at 24 inches.
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now that takes talent....

haha A bit like my hair looks like in the morning.

That is just stupid tho, XD How much hair spry dose he have to put on, I bet Marge Simpson would bet him tho

 

[mink]

^^um....easy, its my pet Elephant, Baloon, bouncing off dining table.
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Guinness Book
Record Holders


Aaron Studham of Massachusetts set a record for highest hair, at 24 inches.
----------------------------

now that takes talent....

haha A bit like my hair looks like in the morning.

That is just stupid tho, XD How much hair spry dose he have to put on, I bet Marge Simpson would bet him tho

Lol Marge Simpson..funny link to the guy there.

 

[NeverMore]

This is about the stinging cells found on jellyfish,cnidocytes:

This discharge is one of the fastest biological processes, takes no more than a few microseconds, and reaches accelerations of about 40,000g. However, it has recently been shown to occur as fast as 600 nanoseconds, thus reaching an acceleration around five million G's. After penetration, the toxic content of the nematocyst is injected into the target organism. The rapid activity of the injected neurotoxins immediately paralyzes the mobile prey, thus allowing the sessile cnidarian to devour it.

 

[toxic-tears]

ok.. here is my contribution...


~The man who wrote New York City's traffic code, William Eno, never drove a car himself.

~The highest postal Zip Code in the United States is 99950 for Ketchikan, Alsaka.

~The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes.

~The average adult has approximately six pounds of skin.

~Sex burns about 70-120 calories for a 130 pound woman, and 77 to 155 calories for a 170 pound man every hour.

~Kissing can aid in reducing tooth decay. This is because the extra saliva helps in keeping the mouth clean. (this i s kind of gross to me.. but they said its a fact..)

~A kiss for one minute can burn 26.

~It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

~When you sneeze, all your bodily functions momentarily stop, including your heart.

 

[sloth4urluv]

~The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes.
~A kiss for one minute can burn 26.

Looks like I have alot of time to make up for
This shall b my new excercize program

 

[mink]

Lol sloth..

~When you sneeze, all your bodily functions momentarily stop, including your heart.

...and I've been doing this a whole lot today
That should mean my heart has stopped so many times.. wow.

 

[Minus]

[Tupac] Shakur is the only artist ever to have an album at #1 on the Billboard 200 while serving a prison sentence.

 

[Leef `c]

Did you know the world's earliest computer actually dates back to Greek times? It's called the Antikythera Mechanism and it's a computer in the sense that you input something and get an output, it could do addition subtraction, multiplication, division and kept track of the position of the Sun, Earth, and eclipses possibly even Mercury and Venus too. It dates back to around 65 BC! I found out about it by watching the history channel one day, it's amazing to me.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/29/ugreek129.xml


British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's famous speech, "We Shall Never Surrender" was actually spoken by an actor impersonating Churchill's voice over the BBC.

^That's debatable: http://winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=101 <-------There's a source that would say otherwise

I've read a biography of Churchill, and the author of it went in it great detail on the speech, where Churchill was, how he felt about it, etc. There are a lot of myths circulating around people like Churchill, and a lot of them aren't true. Churchill was a lot of things good and bad, but I know he gave that speech.

I just now read about the ancient computer. That's amazing.

 

[Minus]

The Funk Brothers have "played on more number-one records than The Beatles, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, and The Beach Boys combined."

 

[Minus]

[Bing] Crosby's single of "White Christmas" was recognized as the best-selling single in any music category for more than 50 years until 1997, when Elton John's tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, "Candle In the Wind," overtook it in a matter of months. However, Crosby's recording of "White Christmas" has sold additional millions of copies as part of numerous compilation albums, including his best-selling album Merry Christmas, which was first released as an LP in 1949.

 

[Minus]

[Irving Berlin] "Became the oldest songwriter to have a hit in Billboard's Top 100 with Taco Ockerse's cover of "Puttin' on the Ritz" recorded in 1982."

 

[pkg_inc]

When the disney characters were first introduced to Japan, the government was gravely concerned: Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck only had four fingers! See, in Japan, the mafia (yakuza) have a introductory rite where they cut off the outer joint on the pinky finger. So therefore, the government was concerned that the children would think the disney characters were scary mafia members. I kid you not

 

[evanescencefan91]

yikes, wow i didn't know that pkginc,thats interesting,

but pretty much all cartoon characters, (including the simpsons) have only 4 fingers , it's just a lot easy to draw a hand with 4 fingers.

 

[NeverMore]

Interesting stuff i never knew, the yakuza go figure

The swastika was originally a symbol of good fortune for a lot of ancient civilizations, and Hitler took the mirror image of that symbol and that is what he used