~~~ Strange Facts Topic ~~~

I UPDATED THE FACTS, ALL ARE NEW.

* Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.
* The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, uses every letter in the alphabet.
* Average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.
* A 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
* The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year by the weight of books.
* Nutmeg can extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
* The density of neuron star is 1.5 to 3 times of sun’s mass.
* Almost 85% of the universe is a form of dark matter.
* The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It to Beaver”.
* Only one person in two billion will live up to 116 of age.
* 200 companies contributing 29% to the world economy employs only 0.9% of the world’s work force.
* 98 tons of ore historic buried plant material is used to make one U.S gallon of gasoline.
* An estimated 16,000 people worldwide are becoming infected with HIV every day.
* Strong negative emotions lead to damage of immune system.
* Due to pollution and overfishing, population of American, Asian and Europeans eels have declined up to 99%.
* The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
* Neutrons have a life of 14 minutes outside the nucleus of an atom.
* Only 22% of original forests on earth have remained.
* There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
* Humans are the only primates having pigment in the palms of their hands.
* On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
* Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.

 

Well, atleast this thread is thorough. I find it a bit pointless, but congratulations anyway.

 

wow were did you find these?

 

In miami it's forbidden to imitate an animal...

I wonder who was so fed up to make that law.

 

I don't know about the accuracy of some of these facts...sources please?

 

i lul'd

 

Google, type strange facts.

 

Wow, more houses in the us burn everyday than bibles are sold worldwide... i do not think all of these are correct... >.<

 

A pig orgasm lasts thirty minutes.

 

Some of those were pretty damn interesting.

 

I've posted this before, but here it is again"

You are 4 times more likely to die during sex, if your partner isn't your wife.

 

are you serious?

 

Wow so strange.

 

Seem very interesting... can you cite your sources?

 

Funny haha I liked em

 

congradulations your learned how to copy paste

 

Some of these are obviovly incorrect like: "More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!" which makes me question the accuracy of the others.

 

Haha i could just go on reading this type of list forever. Such useless information that's so entertaining =)

 

theres one law where you cant do something with a gorilla in a park on saturday ...idk its something really ridiculous like that
someone did a report on these strange laws in the 4th grade haha

 

Yes, very.

So watch out.