32 things I bet you didn't know

Spunj

..or maybe you did if you've read this before...

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it
will digest itself. YUCK!
3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I
know some people like that!
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in
the distance.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! I
knew it !
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were
made of wood.
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in
a game of chess is
318,979,564,000.
13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and
silver.
14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a
recorded Wendy before.
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly
go mad and sting itself to death.
17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so
you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the
USA".
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
WHAT???
21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for
automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was
Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink
into quicksand. GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER??
24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of
celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike
contest.
26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to
take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. ????
29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most
often stolen from Public Libraries.
31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other
drawback to farting in such a confined space....
32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

Kraken

i knew number 25 but all in all that was quiet good dude.

suppafly

Again we see that Boards.ie is a very educational tool. Thats a good post. I knew the one about the quick sand. Also a similsr one to No. 8 is in Star Wars a new hope where one of the the stormtroopers while coming into one of the rooms on the deathstar smacks his head of the off the top of the door!! It pretty funny!! I'll definetly have to watch ben-hur and try and spot the red car!

Pugsley

A big list of informative,yet completely useless facts.Must have been compiled by microsoft
Good 'un

Spunog UIE

i luv things like these but i also like an explantion for some. like the quick sand thing, why would that work? and the raisin.

Flutterby is so much better.

Dr. Loon

Originally posted by Gideon
i luv things like these but i also like an explantion for some. like the quick sand thing, why would that work? and the raisin.

Flutterby is so much better.

Seen that before, some deadly facts... always knew the one about the ducks quack....

The quicksand thing - How Quicksand works

I imagine it's the bubbles in the champagne that makes the raisin rise and it falls as the bubbles dissipate!? Anyone else know for sure?

Mr.Applepie

i knew 7&17 the rest were pretty cool

I give you a thumbs up!

kiffer

Originally posted by Dr. Loon


Seen that before, some deadly facts... always knew the one about the ducks quack....

The quicksand thing - How Quicksand works

I imagine it's the bubbles in the champagne that makes the raisin rise and it falls as the bubbles dissipate!? Anyone else know for sure?

yup thats how the raisin thing works ....
but the thing about the rule of tumb is not true...

EvilGeorge

Now I need to find me some quciksand for an experiment!

azezil

I knew about 6 of them

Spunog UIE

Originally posted by EvilGeorge
Now I need to find me some quciksand for an experiment!

excatly... it has to be put into practice.

like wouldn't this be great fun could do that all day weeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Knew alot of em but a few were news to me n1

NeoSlicerZ

Good.

rymus

Apparently my mind is full of many useless facts, I knew 4, 8, 14, 17, 20, 22 (of course), 23, 26, 27, 29 and 32...

I really need to get out more

Raptor

To add to this list of interesting facts, the tune of the American national anthem is actually an old english drinking song.