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Facts

Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:22 am

Facts. Put weird facts here.

Fact: "Women in Tennesee cannot wear pants on Sunday, it is a law!"

Fact: "Penguins will eat seals, and seals eat penguins"

Thu Dec 02, 2004 6:02 am

Fact: "Penguins will eat seals, and seals eat penguins"


Well...
I've never heard that one before.
Ever.
Penguins aren't built to eat seals, so i'd like to see the proof behind this.

Thu Dec 02, 2004 6:07 am

ahoteinrun wrote:
Fact: "Penguins will eat seals, and seals eat penguins"


Well...
I've never heard that one before.
Ever.
Penguins aren't built to eat seals, so i'd like to see the proof behind this.


I probably can't find the article again, but I'll try. They don't HUNT seals, they eat the dead ones.

Fri Dec 03, 2004 2:41 am

Here's a few

Alabama

It is illegal to play Dominos on Sunday. It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church. Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.


New Hampshire

It is illegal to sell the clothes one is wearing to pay off a gambling debt. It is illegal to check into a hotel under an assumed name
Rhode Island

In Providence, it is illegal to sell toothpaste and a toothbrush to the same customer on a Sunday. It is illegal to throw pickle juice on a trolley. In Newport, it is illegal to smoke a pipe after sunset


South Carolina

Every citizen is obliged to carry his gun to church. No horses are allowed into Fountain Inn unless they are wearing pants. In Charleston, all carriagehorses must wear diapers.

Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:55 am

All polar bears are left handed

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

In Arizona, when being attacked by a criminal or burglar, you may only protect yourself with the same weapon that the other person possesses

Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:55 am

floella_de_ville wrote:40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year

Lol, can't imagine how... Although this does remind me of a story i once read.....

Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:03 pm

# The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
# The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

*giggle* :P

Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:13 pm

Silja wrote:# The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
# The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

*giggle* :P


For some reason I'm completely grossed out now :thinking:

Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:15 pm

Silja wrote:# The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
# The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

*giggle* :P


*Is eating chocolate right now*

So that's the secret ingredient... No wonder it's so darn good.

*Keeps on eating*

Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:17 pm

Fact: In some states its illegal to own a dashund.
Fact: In one country, a woman can sue her husband if he doesn't make her coffee every morning.

Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:46 pm

Silja wrote:# The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
# The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

*giggle* :P


actually thats wrong (the second one)
its "the average human will eat 8 LB's of live insect in their liftime.
thats a whole lot mroe spiders than 8.

anyway.
the galaxy (the milky way) is approximetly 108,000,000,000,000,000 meters from edge to edge, given that the speed of light is 31,000,000 miles a minute and the galaxy is 125,000 light years across.
unless i royally arsed up the calculation, which im begining to suspect i did...
guess thatll teach me to not do my actual maths work.

or if you prefere, 222 miles.
probably...

Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:59 pm

floella_de_ville wrote:40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year


I'm not sure if that is saying something about how dangerous toilet seats are, or about the intelligence of those Americans.

Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:53 pm

In one country it is illegal to carry an ice-cream in your back pocket.

Fri Dec 03, 2004 7:53 pm

Fact #1: In Illinois its illegal to put vanilla ice cream on your apple pie
Fact #2: Again in Illinois its illegal to have snow ball fights.

Fri Dec 03, 2004 7:56 pm

In Pocatello, Idaho, you must always smile or you could get a fine
If you hold you eyes open long enough, your eyeballs will pop out
Donald Duck comics were banned in Sweden (I think.) because he doesn't wear pants

All I got.
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