Useless facts

[chellyzee93]

Did you know that a slug has 5 noses? What does a slug need 5 noses for?

[FotoPlasma]

Originally posted by chellyzee93
What does a slug need 5 noses for?

Have you ever sniffed one of those things?!

I think anyone who has can agree that they all need to be able to smell better...

[Jeff Rodriguez]

did you know:

OJ simpson was orrigionally cast to be the terminator, in 'the terminator'

[Katie Reynolds]

Hmmm ... Interesting:

"Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts."

"A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless." <-- Ew.

"The Walt Disney character Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy."

"67.5% of men wear briefs instead of boxers." < -- Interesting

"One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together."

- Katie

[Mike Schroeder]

Volcano's can't move (ask wetzel)

[evulish]

I just found this odd and figured this is the only decent place to post it...

Kidnappings have actually decreased in numbers in the past few years...although their popularity in the media has grown.

[Aaron Lussier]

Your finger nails grow 1.8mm faster than you're toe nails

[MBiddy]

If locusts were the size of humans when they jumped they'd accelerate at over 7000 mph/s.

[Brandon Martus]

Elephants stand on their toes.
A turkey can run 20 mph.

[Elgin Clock]

Here's some that I stole from Snapple Caps:

A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways

A duck's quack doesn't echo

A goldfish's attention span is three seconds

A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance

A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion mathematical calculations

A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day

Alaska has more caribou than people

Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work

Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S.

All porcupines float in water

Almonds are members of the peach family

Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons

Broccoli is the only vegetable that is a flower

Cats can hear ultrasound

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds

Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backwards

Fish cough

Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open

Lizards communicate by doing push-ups

Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas

No word in the English language rhymes with month

Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music

The average American will eat 35,000 cookies during his/her lifetime

The average raindrop falls at seven miles per hour

The only food that doesn't spoil is honey

The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses

The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body

There are more telephones than people in Washington D.C.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia

You blink over 10,000,000 times a year

You will definitely never run out of conversation topics at party's if you print this post! LOL

[Joe Matt]

Um, yeah...

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by Elgin Clock
Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons

Well ... think about it. If they're hatched from an egg, there's no need for a belly-button!

Amusing quote for the day:

"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer!" - David Acfield

Wow.

- Katie

[Madison]

Intamin's Mega- and Giga-Coaster braking systems use the FESTO Pneumatic valves provided in our Kit of Parts.

Examples include Superman: Ride of Steel at Six Flags New England, Superman: Ride of Steel at Six Flags Darien Lake, Superman: Ride of Steel at Six Flags America, Millennium Force at Cedar Point and (the only one I've not ridden yet) Xcelerator at Knott's Berry Farm.

[Clark Gilbert]

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command go hang yourself.

When John Wilkes Booth leaped onto the stage after shooting the President, he tripped—on the American flag.

The rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair.

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.