Post interesting FACTS that others may not know....

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A few straight out of my "Trivia for the Toilet" book by Gavin Webster.... it was a gift.


Paper can be made from asparagus.
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women's feet.
35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 1972, a group of scientists reported that you could cure the common cold by freezing the big toe.
There were 15,700,003 Model T Fords manufactured, all in black.
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.
A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
Caligynephobia is the fear of beautiful women.
Mageiricophobia is intense fear of having to cook.
Most humans can guess someone's gender with 95% accuracy just by smelling their breath.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Walt Disney, Tom Cruise, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Edison, Henry Winkler, Cher, and Leonardo da Vinci are all famous dyslexics.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
Mockingbirds can irritatea any sound.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes and is about a quarter-of-an-inch taller at night.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen.


Not sure if there's truth to all of these, but some provide a good laugh.

 

That's because ancient Chinese women's feet looked like this:

Spoiler

 

Yes! And FACT: they were used as an extra sexual organ/tool.

 

A pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of bricks

 

Its googol, and its the name for 10^100, not 10^1000000.

 

The notes for the NBC chimes are G, E, and C.

NBC is owned by the General Electric Company.

 

Pffft, racecar. How about:

Go Hang A Salami, I'm A Lasagna Hog.

 

Alessandra Ambrosio had plastic surgery on her ears.

 

Where's the arrow In the fedex logo?

 

between the F and d.

 

Michael Jordan was playing (NBA) when the Rockets won their second championship.

 

? The one I'm locating is between the E and x.

 

It's between the E and the X. There's a ... um... spoon between the e and the d.

 

You'll have to forgive RoxSqaud. He has a little trouble with letters.

 

Oh hell, that looked beastly.

 

Repped.

 

Fact: Devout muslims celebrate the holiday season with a Christmas tree made entirely of human hair.
Fact: Wilt Chamberlain never flew first class on an airplane because of a strict rule against allowing hermaphrodites to sit closely to the cockpit.
Fact: $2.99 for all you can eat? We'll I'mma stuff my face to a funky beat.
Fact: Many common Dutch surnames of the modern day originated in the early 19th century when Napoleon took over the Netherlands and made surnames a legal requirement. The Dutch, because they wanted to thumb their noses at Napoleon and because they believed the new surname law wouldn't last, chose names like "Poepjes" which translates as "Poopies" and "Piest" which translates as "Pissing."
Fact: There are three things that smell exactly like an octopus but none of those three things are an octopus.
Fact: Despite your mother's best attempts, it is still impossible to suck a dick over the internet.
Fact: The American composer Charles Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) wrote 37 pieces of music over his lifetime, and if you take the first letter from the first word of each song title and line those letters up in chronological order it spells out "my jiggly bits is smooth like butter b****es."
Fact: When William Bradford and the Pilgrims from the Mayflower landed in Texas in 1620 they built the first Dairy Queen as tribute to the Queen of England. They also invented the Peanut Buster Parfait so they could trade with the local Comanche for beer and wine.
Fact: Angel Soft toilet paper is on sale at Kroger pretty much every day, so there's no need to stock up even if you have really bad diarrhea.
Fact: the thadeus already did her
Fact: Kamala, a former professional wrestler best known for his "wild African tribesman" gimmick during his stint with the WWF in the mid-1980s, is the only foreign-born person to ever be elected President of the United States.

 

Any number that adds up to something divisible by three is divisible by three.

27

2+7 = 9

27/3 = 9

51 = 6

51/3 = 17

 

FAIL: I recall when the Peanut Buster Parfait was introduced in 1986.