27 Unsusual facts that you proberbly didn't know

**Sniper** · 2nd November 2005, 11:36

27. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

26. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...gs&btnG=Search

25. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf058/sf058b07.htm

24. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount. (Common Sense)

23. Uncle Phil, from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, did the voice of Shredder in the TMNT cartoon.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043041/

22. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
http://www.webelements.com/webelemen...t/Au/geol.html

21. The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

20. During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/ar...auschwitz.html

19. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
http://www.perceptions.couk.com/superants.html

18. The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
http://www.asiawind.com/pub/forum/fh.../msg00451.html

17. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content...age?d=20000714

16. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp

15. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Sect..._on_Earth_.htm

14. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/average.html

13. The Kamp Krusty episode of the Simpson’s was originally meant to be made as the Simpsons movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamp_Krusty

12. Men can breastfeed babies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_lactation

11. There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you\'ve probably never heard of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome

10. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants. http://www.factmonster.com/spot/fungus1.html

9. In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written first and the individual name written second (opposite of the America method). That\'s why Asian athletes like Yao Ming and Ichiro Suzuki have Yao and Ichiro written on their jerseys. Those are their family names and in America their names are written Ming Yao and Suzuki Ichiro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_name

8. Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
http://www.historycooperative.org/jo...19.1/hall.html

7. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtop...t=9684&start=0

6. Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States. Long Beach, WA.
http://www.gonorthwest.com/Washingto...Long_Beach.htm

5. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fungus1.html

4. The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/h...ettlement.html

3. 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. This isn’t true; Joseph Swan did.
http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/swan.html

2. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasc...1/gen01338.htm

1. The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
http://www.improb.com/teach/lessons2...-in-texas.html

**ManDownUnder** · 2nd November 2005, 11:40

17. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

errr at the risk of being pedantic... 3 minus 1 1/3 ain't 2 2/3...

... aaaa forget it - as you were

**ManDownUnder** · 2nd November 2005, 11:41

Originally Posted by Sniper

1. The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.

Oh and #1 of course... coz some of them are terrorists and dubya has an interest in keeping them out of Texas...

unless he put them on death row? Maybe #1 is true then... yeah - ignore this post too

**Bartman10** · 2nd November 2005, 12:20

Originally Posted by Sniper

22. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

A pity atoms are so light.

1 billion (US) gold atoms is about 0.00000000000000001 grams!

Lets get mining!

**MikeL** · 2nd November 2005, 13:03

Originally Posted by Sniper

20. During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.

Iwould be very surprised if there were any computers as such in Germany in WWII. I assume it was just an advanced calculating machine.
Presumably able to count up to 6 million...

**Lias** · 2nd November 2005, 13:30

I'm sure I've heard some of those debunked by snopes etc before, so take with a large grain of salt.

**Colapop** · 2nd November 2005, 13:37

Originally Posted by LiasTZ

I'm sure I've heard some of those debunked by snopes etc before, so take with a large grain of salt.

sea salt? (hopefully) Coz if it was seasalt, and it was a really large grain, there'd be gold mixed with it? wouldn't there?

**Sniper** · 2nd November 2005, 13:39

Just added the sites, please be aware that this is not the work of the poster IE: me

**inlinefour** · 2nd November 2005, 14:05

some of them I did not want to know either, but good anyhow

**Warren** · 2nd November 2005, 14:39

Some of the facts when condensed to a sentance become a bit misleading, but I don't have time to make a long post as I must find a baby to test out my new found breastfeeding abilities.

**mstriumph** · 2nd November 2005, 14:39

thank you
you are having another reaaaaaally slow day, aren't you

**Sniper** · 2nd November 2005, 14:41

Smoko from 7am till 5pm.

**Lou Girardin** · 2nd November 2005, 14:48

IBM developed the "Automatic Sequence Calculating Machine" in 1944, described as the forerunner of computers. I too doubt that the Nazis used computers. They may have used one of IBM's accounting machines.
Their paperwork was immaculate though, enough to send a few of them to the gallows.

Anorak off - back to bullshit.