bizarre facts

[Areke]

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> 1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
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> 2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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> 3.The name of all the continents end with the same letter that
>they
> start with.
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> 4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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> 5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United
>States.
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> 6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
>letters
> only on one row of the keyboard.
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> 7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
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> 8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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> 9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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> 10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you
>sneeze,your
> heart stops for a millisecond.
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> 11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the
>sky.
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> 12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be
>the
> toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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> 13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try
>to
> suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head
>or neck
> and die.
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> 14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king
>from
> history.
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> Spades - King David
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> Clubs - Alexander the Great,
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> Hearts - Charlemagne
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> Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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> 15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 12,345,678,987,654,321
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> 16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both
>front legs
> in the air, the person died in battle.
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> If the horse has one front leg in the air,the person died as a
>result
> of wounds received in battle.
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> If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died
>of
> natural causes.
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> 17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers
>and
> laser printers all have in common?
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> Ans. - All invented by women.
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[AdamW]

Some of them are quite interesting...... smileys/smiley4.gif

But I have a different answer for Number 4...... smileys/smiley2.gif

[grantsmith1985]

I might just be stupid but I dont understand number 3. Can someone explain smileys/smiley9.gif

[Areke]

europe starts with e ends with e
america starts a ends a

i think smileys/smiley5.gif

[grantsmith1985]

OK I read it wrong, I thought it said COuntry instead of Continent, lol.

[Areke]

http://images14.fotki.com/v225/photos/5/54570/2517112/INBOX21831-vi.jpg

[Hanny_lou]

areke- ooooh very interesting!!

GO WOMEN

[boz]

LOL very interesting smileys/smiley2.gif
did you know that coca cola when it first came out, it had a small trace of cocaine in it, it had to be removed when too many people where becoming addicted to it. it was replaced with caffine (sp) smileys/smiley9.gif that has a similar effect.

[DevilDamo]

Some good ones there.

[Dan]

Yeah very interesting, and I didnt try to lick my elbow by the way. smileys/smiley2.gif

[boz]

i can, i just unclip the straps, pull it from my shoulder, turn it over and lick the elbow. but its a bit dirty from when i was doing the hoocey coocey on saturday nite smileys/smiley9.gif

[Hanny_lou]

smileys/smiley5.gif

[grantsmith1985]

And coke a cola used to be a fizzy wine, which contained the cocaine aswell. Ontop of that Cokeacola use coke to cleaned the engine bays on their truckes. THe same way it makes coins super shiny.

[boz]

yup, my mate uses it to remove oil off his garage floor, he used to use gunk but switched to coke! we must have strong guts LOL

[grantsmith1985]

Yer makes you think, It can do all that and people throw it down their necks by the litre loads. Nice, lol. Poor stomach.

[Areke]

Bizarre facts of this world
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In Saudi Arabia, men are legally allowed to have sex with
animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual
relations with a male animal is punishable by death.

In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a
woman's genitals, but is prohibited from looking
directly at them during the examination. He may only
see their reflection in a mirror.

Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a
corpse. This also applies to undertakers; the sex
organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or
piece of wood at all times.

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is
decapitation.

There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel
the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay
them for the privilege of having sex for the first
time... Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly
forbidden for virgins to marry.

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to
kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with
her bare hands. The husband's lover, on the other
hand, may be killed in any manner desired.

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England -
but only in tropical fish stores.

In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her
husband, and the first time this happens, her mother
must be in the room to witness the act.

In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to
have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same
time.

In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from
vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may
be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places
where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on
the premises."

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 fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months,
enough gas is produced to create the energy of an
atomic bomb.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

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

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex
for pleasure.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30
times its own weight and always falls over on its
right side when intoxicated.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Starfish don't have brains.

[boz]

smileys/smiley3.gif i have just been across to indonesia smileys/smiley3.gif

[Mark]

Farmers tackle pests with colas (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3977351.stm), and people drink that junk!!!

[saxogal]

i tried to lick my elbow lol someone else must have lol

[S9_DAN]

love that

[Yates]

what abour north american and south america they start with different letters to what they end with

and ive never tried to lick my elbow cos i know u cant!

[Areke]

america is america and i think its south americas smileys/smiley2.gif

[mike_obuk]

number 9 - Yes you can! tried it!!!! lol

and dont try and tell me the rest of you didnt try it either! lol smileys/smiley17.gif

[Hanny_lou]

all very interestiing

[frilla]

lol i tryed 2 lick my elbow smileys/smiley14.gif
some interseting stuff there

[Hanny_lou]

I CANT DO IT smileys/smiley19.gif

[Scott]

thats why its called impossible

[Chris_F]

Hey other continents include.......AsiA, AfricA,

And yes i wear a coned shape hat with the big letter "D" on my head because i also tried to lick my elbow,

i guess its just the reaction from reading it and trying to tell yourself you can do it when really you have no bloody chance.

[C2_VTR]

I have also heard that Coca Cola was invented first as a headache medicine.

[addictedtosax]

i have a few.

3% of all japanese pets are alcoholics

you can fit the population of the world 3 times over in loch ness.

the longest ever recorded tape worm found inside the human body was 33m long!

if ebay was a country, it would be amoung the 120 richest countries in the world because of its massive GDP.

you can fit 14 pints of beer in an average condom.

thats all i can think of just now smileys/smiley14.gif

[Hanny_lou]

you can fit 14 pints of beer in an average condom.

i wanna know how the person decided he was going to test

[gordy]

some very interesting pub amo there

its trying to remember them to use them lol

[Hanny_lou]

hard to remember when ur drunk though

[Yates]

its north american not just america cause i dont tink canada would be happy about that! and south america, it aint south america's im sure

[Hanny_lou]

picky

[jonnosaxo87]

not picky, correct. What about the arctic?

[boz]

the artic isnt a continent.
america
europe
africa
asia
austrilasia

not sure what russia falls into now?

geography was my mucking about lesson LOL smileys/smiley9.gif carnt remember much

[boz]

LOL, i remeber a day at school when the teacher asked us to bring 2 household things into school that would be useful in a war. my mate took a condom and a tampon.

when the teacher asked why, he said you could carry loads of water in the condom and the tampon was in case you got shot! LOL i was in stitches on the floor, well planned out tho smileys/smiley2.gif

[Yates]

surely its north america and south america ive always been taught that

[addictedtosax]

yeh i agree actually, south and north american definately, ive got a B at Higher geography!!! smileys/smiley4.gif

[Yates]

and its not being picky, its been stated as a fact - which its not smileys/smiley17.gif

[Arioch]

All I can say to that is - Let`s hear it for the pigs smileys/happy.gif

[Yates]

say wot