random facts =]

honeybees have hair on their eyes.

which is gross.

i read somewhere that the first antidepressant GHB now now used as a date rape drug (how scary???)


1 in 3 marriages end up in divorce


50% of rapists/ peodeophiles have a gf and or children ( taken from Crimewatch UK)


the most common time for a person to commit suicide is at 4.48 in the morning


On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!


There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.


Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-alike contest


If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were 1,800 of them in China

Last edited by butterflygina (11-23-2008 01:12)

FunkyStar wrote:

have a random tidbit of info? share it here

a duck's quack never echos

they do... its just too quiet for us to hear it

the alphabet song has the same tune as twinkle twinkle little star...

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.

Liney wrote:

There is 0.1 calories in a postage stamp.

Aww pants I work in a post office and lick stamps every day! Wonder how many extra calories I consume licking the stinky stamps lol

Sorry if these have been posted before

- Rabbits can't throw up
- A cat's jaws cannot move sideways
- The human brain is 80% water
- Most people blink about 17,000 times a day
- Lobsters have blue blood
- A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head
- An Astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space. The cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity
- No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
- Starfish don't have brains
- An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself
-  The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
- There's a place in the world called "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai-
whenuakitanatahu"  Google it without the hyphen..

Last edited by PriincessLouiisee (12-08-2008 16:31)