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BigLad140 — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:16:00 +0100

Well hope everybody is enjoying sunshine where ever they live in the World!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hiya every1 lets introduce ourselves.......................

BigLad140 — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:35:00 +0100

I tried this one before with much success................Tell every1 your name and where in the world u are listening to Absolute radio..................................

Justin ........................United Kingdom.............on my pc

Its only meeeeeeeeeeeeee

BigLad140 — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:32:00 +0100

Hi every 1.....Well did every1 have a decent day with lots of sunshine?????????????

Hope u all have a wonderful bank holiday .I will see you all again next week........

funny pics

BigLad140 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:48:00 +0100

Useless Facts TV

BigLad140 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:48:00 +0000

» The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen.

» The first TV couple to share a bed was not on "The Brady Bunch" or "The Munsters," but was on "The Mary Kay and Johnny" show in 1947. It was the first situation comedy ever.

» In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.

» Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be televised, in ceremonies opening the New York World's Fair in April 1939.

» The first television shows to have the characters take bathroom breaks were "All in the Family" and "Married with Children."

» The Simpsons is the longest running animated series on TV.

» MTV first aired at 12:01 AM on August 1, 1981. The first video was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Bugles.

» The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver."

» In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Places Outside USA continued

BigLad140 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:45:00 +0000

» Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world.

» The country code for Russia is "007".

» To buy a McDonald's extra value meal in Russia it would cost the average Russian worker 1 months pay.

» Russians generally answer the phone by saying, "I'm listening".

» The U.S. bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre from Russia.

» 1 in 5 of the world's doctors are Russian.

» Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.

» The people of Israel consume more turkeys per capita than any other country.

» The daily commuter trains arriving and departing from Bombay, India are designed to carry 1,700 passengers but are regularly packed with over 7,000 passengers.

» Nepal is the only country that has a non-rectangular flag. It is also asymmetrical.

» The official name for the city of Bangkok, Thailand is "Krung thep mahanakhon bovorn ratanakosin mahintharayutthaya mahadilok pop noparatratchathani burirom udomratchanivetma hasathan amornpiman avatarnsa thit sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit" or just "Krung thep" for short meaning "City of Angels."

» 1,800 cigarettes are smoked per person each year in China.

» Respiratory Disease is China's leading cause of death.

» In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "finger-lickin' good" came out as "eat your fingers off."

» There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script.

» More people speak English in China than the United States.

» There is a tea in China called "white tea" it is simply boiled water.

» The Chinese built a battery that lasted 400 years.

» The Chinese Lettered Goldfish has Chinese characters on it; it has been achieved though many years of cross breeding.

» The toothbrush was invented in China in 1498.

» If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

» Mongolia is the largest landlocked country.

» Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.

» In Japan, watermelons are squared. It's easier to stack them that way.

» 98% of Japanese are cremated.

» Out of the 23,000 Japanese soldiers that died on the Guadal-canal, only 10% died from bullets. The majority died from fever, malaria, and hunger.

» The number "four" is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced the same as "death".

» The average Japanese household watches more than 10 hours of television a day.

» There's a place in Japan called "O."

» The Philippines has about 7,100 islands, of which only about 460 are more than 1 square mile (2.6 sq km) in area. Eleven islands have an area of more than 1,000 square miles (2590 sq km) each and contain the bulk of the population.

» Yo-yo's were used as weapons by warriors in the Philippines in the 16th century.

» Australian soldiers used the song "We're Off to See the Wizard" as a marching song in WWII.

» Australia is the only country to have monotremes. A monotreme is a mammal that lays eggs but suckles its young on milk once they have hatched (e.g. the platypus).

» The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

» The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree.

» The Salvation Army in Australia made the worlds first full length feature movie in 1900.

» Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.

» The longest place name still in use, which is 85 letters long, is "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipuka- kapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" which is a name of a hill in New Zealand.

» According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the first populated land where the sun will rise in the new millennium, and at the beginning of any other year, is at Kahuitara Point (44° 16' S 176° 9' W) on Pitt Island in the Chatham Islands, a dependency of New Zealand.

» Greenland is the largest island in the world.

Useless Facts about places outside USA

BigLad140 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:40:00 +0000

» Canada is an Indian word meaning "village of huts." When the first explorers of Canada asked the Indians what the land was called, the Indians thought they were being asked the name of their village, which was "Kanata." The name stuck.

» The first McDonald's restaurant in Canada was in Richmond, British Columbia.

» In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.

» There are more donut shops in Canada per capita than any other country.

» 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.

» In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

» In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter.

» The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.

» Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

» More than 90% of the Nicaraguan people are Roman Catholic.

» Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad.

» Jamaica has the most churches per square mile than any other country in the world.

» Jamaica was the first country from the English speaking Caribbean to qualify for the Football World Cup.

» Bolivia has two capitals.

» The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.

» Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the summer Olympic games while hosting the event.

» The Amazon is the world's largest river, 3,890 miles (6,259 km) long.

» The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.

» A single sausage measuring 5,917 feet (1,804 m) in length was cooked in Barcelona, Spain on September 22, 1986.

» There is a church in Spain that allows worshippers to make donations via a credit card terminal.

» The people of France eat more cheese than any other country in the world.

» There's a place called "Y" in France.

» King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.

» The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi.

» The Eiffel tower in France varies in height depending on the temperature, Sometimes by as much as six inches.

» Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.

» In ancient Greece "idiot" meant a private citizen or layman.

» Bulgarians are known to be the biggest yogurt eaters in the world.

» Czechs are the biggest consumers of beer per male in the world.

» A Czech man, Jan Honza Zampa, holds the record for drinking one liter of beer in 4.11 seconds.

» A national campaign against swearing has started in Holland. Railway stations have started to display signs that say, "Missed your train? Cursing doesn't help!"

» Netherlands is the only country with a national dog.

» When we think of Big Ben in London, we think of the clock. Actually, it's the bell.

» King George I of England could not speak English; he was born and raised in Germany. He let his ministers run the country to get around this problem.

» The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) was introduced in England in 1965.

» Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.

» In ancient Scotland, every leap year maidens were allowed to ask a man to be her husband, refusal cost him a pound.

» Icelandic phone books sometimes contain people's occupations as well as their name. This is because so many people have the same name.

» Icelanders consume more Coca-Cola per Capita than any other nation.

» Until 1997, there were more pigs than people in Denmark.

» Sweden has the lowest birth rate (1 in 100).

» There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

» Sweden has the least number of murders annually.

» Until 1965, driving in Sweden was done on the left-hand side of the road. The conversion was done on a weekday at 5:00 p.m. This was supposed to prevent people from waking up in the morning and forgetting which side of the road to drive on.

» Donald Duck Comics were once banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

More Useless Facts from USA

BigLad140 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:39:00 +0000

» "Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

» Georgia's state motto is "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation."

» The U.S. city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is Clearwater, Florida.

» Florida was separated into two sections at one time, East Florida and West Florida. Pensacola was the capital of West Florida and St. Augustine was the capital of East Florida.

» George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, all Virginians, were founding fathers of the United States and were among the first five U.S. Presidents. Virginia was also the birthplace of U.S. Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.

» The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as needed because when it was built the state of Virginia still had segregation laws.

» It's illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Norfolk, Virginia.

» There was a town in West Virginia called "6."

» The first streetlights in America were installed in Philadelphia around 1757.

» In Frackville, Pennsylvania a woman filed for divorce because her husband insisted on "shooting tin cans off of her head with a slingshot."

» The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

» If you were to take a taxicab from New York City to Los Angeles, it would cost you $8,325.

» New York cities administrative code still requires that hitching posts be located in front of City Hall so that reporters can tie their horses.

» The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.

» In New York State, it is illegal to but any alcohol on Sundays before noon.

» Queen Anne had a transvestite cousin, Lord Cornbury, whom she assigned to be governor of New York and New Jersey. The colonists were not amused.

» There were 240 pedestrian fatalities in New York City in 1994.

» Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

» The Citibank building in New York City had a structural flaw and had the potential to fall down. When the flaw was caught in 1978, a year after completion, it was found that there was a 50% chance of collapse during winds over 78 miles (126 km) per hour, typical in a hurricane. At the same time there was a hurricane heading straight for NYC. The building owner secretly had the flaw corrected in the middle of the night. There were rumors about the "glowing Citibank building" because the welding could be seen across the skyline. It was estimated that 156 blocks would have been demolished due to the domino effect the building would start had it fallen over.

» The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet (91 m) long by 23 feet (7 m) high.

» On the 25th anniversary of the New York City marathon, the world's longest urinal, 290 feet, (88 m) was installed at the beginning of the race.

» Customers who bought the first Kodak cameras had to mail them back to Rochester, New York for reloading.

» All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in New York City was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.

» On a clear day, you can see five states from the top of the Empire State Building - New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

» Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonalds.

» Maine is the only state that has borders with only one other state.

» Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

» Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Useless USA Facts

BigLad140 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:30:00 +0000

» California consumes more bottled water than any other product.

» California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named "Jesus Christ."

» The world's shortest river is the "D" river in Oregon. It's only 120 feet (37 m). It connects Devil's lake to the nearby Pacific Ocean.

» In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

» Nevada is the driest state in the U.S.. Each year it averages 7.5 inches (19 cm) of rain.

» In December 1997, the state of Nevada became the first state to pass legislation categorizing Y2K data disasters as "acts of God" protecting the state from lawsuits that may potentially be brought against it by residents in the year 2000.

» In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.

» Salt Lake City, Utah has a law against carrying an unwrapped ukulele on the street.

» Arizona was the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union.

» It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

» The meteorite that hit/made The Barringer crater in Arizona weighed more than 50,000 tons.

» The amount of concrete used in the building of the Hoover Dam is equal to that of paving a 4-foot (1.2 m) wide footpath around the equator.

» Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869.

» Denver, Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger.

» Denver, Colorado consumes less prune juice per capita than any other city in the United States.

» The first license plate on a car in the United States was issued in Denver, Colorado in 1908.

» In Fruita, Colorado the town folk celebrate "Mike the Headless Chicken Day." Seems that a farmer named L.A. Olsen cut off Mike's head on September 10, 1945 in anticipation of a chicken dinner - and Mike lived for another 4 years without a head. Mike died from choking on a corn kernel.

» The state of Maryland has no natural Lakes.

» Illinois has the highest number of personalized license plates than any other state.

» Austin, Texas has the highest percentage of college graduates, 31 percent. Newark, New Jersey has the lowest, 6 percent.

» Residents of Houston, Texas lead the U.S. in eating out - approximately 4.6 times per week.

» The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

» Laredo, Texas is the U.S.'s farthest inland port.

» There is a town in Texas called "Ding Dong."

» Rugby, North Dakota is the geographical center of North America.

» Butte County, South Dakota is the geographical center of the U.S.

» "Home on the Range" is the state song for Kansas.

» It is illegal to get fish drunk in Oklahoma.

» The world's largest McDonalds is located on I-44 at Vinita, Oklahoma. It goes from one side of the interstate to the other, passing over the interstate.

» Louisiana's capital building is the tallest one of any U.S. state.

» Louisiana is the only state not to have counties. They are called Parishes.

» Mississippi is the poorest state.

» Hawaii is the only coffee producing state.

» New Jersey has a spoon museum.

» One in seven workers in Boston, Massachusetts walks to work.

» The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

» The "Dull Men's Hall of Fame" is located in Carroll, Wisconsin.

» Gary, Indiana is the murder capital of the U.S. - probably the world.

» Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday.

» The largest NFL stadium is the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, Michigan.

» Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.

» No matter where you stand in Michigan, you are never more than 85 miles from a Great Lake.

» Marshall almost became the state capital of Michigan but lost by one vote in 1848.

» In 1997, Michigan became the 16th state to allow the blind to hunt.

» The official beverage of Ohio is tomato juice.

More Useless Facts 4

BigLad140 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:28:00 +0000

» Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.

» Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number

» The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.

» Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

» If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111, you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.

» The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.

» "Zorro" means "fox" in Spanish.

» Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

» The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "finger-lickin' good" came out as "eat your fingers off" in Chinese.

» "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

» There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

» "Floccinaucinihilipilification" which means "the act of estimating as worthless" is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long.

» Pogonophobia: The fear of beards.

» If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

» In Chinese, the words "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same.

» "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

» "So long" came from the Arabic "salaam" and the Hebrew "shalom."

» The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

» The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

» The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it.

» "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

» There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver, orange, or month.

» The letter "I" is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's "Macbeth."

» There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

» "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed.

» The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

» The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

» In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.

» "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.

» The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.

» "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using only the top row on the keyboard.

» The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means, "the king is dead."

» The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English language.

» The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."

» Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."

» "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

» The most common name in the world is "Mohammed."

Useless facts3

BigLad140 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:27:00 +0000

» The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

» Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water.

» A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

» If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).

» The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

» There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

» In a century's time, Islam had converted 1/3 of the world.

» In 75% of Americans households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

» The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.

» Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 166 or older.

» The world record for rain boot tossing is 179.14 feet (54.60 m).

» Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.

» Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people.

» More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world.

» 1/4 of the bones in your body is in your feet.

» Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

» You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

» There are 1,525,000,000 miles (2,453,725,000 km) of telephone wire strung across America.

» Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.

» If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

» The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons.

» The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

» The average person laughs 15 times a day.

» It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

» The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

» When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles (4827 km) per hour.

» The first millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days. Our current millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days. The third millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, will consist of 365,242 days. The reason for the differences is the calendar system that was in use during the millenniums.

More facts 2

BigLad140 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:25:00 +0000

» In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.

» It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.

» $26 billion in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.

» You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.

» On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.

» There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.

» Odds of being killed by a dog - 1 in 700,000.

» Odds of dying while in the bath tub - 1 in 1 million.

» Odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.

» Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000.

» Odds of being killed by freezing - 1 in 3 million.

» Odds of being killed by lightening - 1 in 2 million.

» Odds of being killed in a car crash - 1 in 5,000.

» Odds of being killed in a tornado - 1 in 2 million.

» Odds of being killed by falling out of bed - 1 in 2 million.

» Odds of being killed in a plane crash -1 in 25 million.

» If you played all of the Beatles' singles and albums that came out between 1962 and 1970 back to back, it would only last for 10 hours and 33 minutes.

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

» The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.

» 13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them.

» There is a 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.

» About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight.

» The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

» The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.

» The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes each year.

» Skin temperature does not go much above 95 degrees even on the hottest days.

» 314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994.

» Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.

» Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.

» The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.

» Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.

» Driving 55 miles (88 km) per hour instead of 65 miles (105 km) per hour increases your car mileage by about 15%.

» Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour.

» If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

» 1/3 of all cancers are sun related.

» The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime.

» There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

» It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.

» The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.

Useless Facts continued..........

BigLad140 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:23:00 +0000

» At -40 degrees Centigrade/Fahrenheit, a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

» One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.

» In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.

» There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

» If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

» Less than 3% of Nestle's sales are for chocolate.

» The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

» There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.

» The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

» More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

» Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.

» The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

» More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

» The only 2 days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

» Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

» The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only 6 inches (15 cm) for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

» You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

» It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

» The tip of a 1/3-inch long hour hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 miles per hour.

» One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life!

» A man's beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs.

» A hair is 70% easier to cut when soaked in warm water for 2 minutes.

» Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.

» It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

» During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.

» 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and dung.

» Less than 1% of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air; respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.

» The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.

» It took 1,175 animators working in Disney studios in Burbank, California, Orlando, Florida, and Paris, France to complete the animated Tarzan. Because of the time differences, production was able to occur around the clock for more than three years.

» From 1840, every president elected in a year ending in the numeral "0" has been assassinated, died in office, or been severely wounded in an attempt on his life. Each event has taken place in an odd numbered year and each on an even numbered day. In each case, the number of terms the president was elected to has alternated between single and multiple (i.e. Harrison 1, Lincoln 2, Garfield 1, Mckinley 2, etc). Ronald Reagan was the first president who did not die because of this "curse." If this pattern continues, the person elected in 2000 will die in 2001 or 2003, or will be wounded in an assassination attempt. Let's hope that the "curse" was broken by Ronald Reagan's survival in 1981.

» The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

» About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas.

» Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

» The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

» No president of the United States was an only child.

» The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

Did u Know??????????????????

BigLad140 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:21:00 +0000

* Fish or fishes?? Though often used interchangeably, these words actually mean different things. Fish is used either as singular noun or to describe a group of specimens from a single species. Fishes describes a group containing more than one species
*Ten countries border Brazil in South America; Equador and Chile are the only two countries in South America that do not share a border with Brazil.
*One out of every 25 coffins from the 16th century were found to have scratch marks on the inside. This is a Myth. Some did get buried alive, but not that many! It is a 10 year old internet joke.
*AIDS was first 'reported and recognised' June 5, 1981, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los Angeles. It had no name, the term "GRID" was used first followed by “the 4H disease”, by September 1982 the CDC started using the name AIDS, and properly defined the illness.
(update because of confusion: Later research by the CDC (Center for Disease Control) finds .. In 1966, a widely traveled Norwegian sailor died with AIDS-like symptoms. When his blood was tested later, it turned out HIV positive. A 1959 blood sample kept from a man living in Kinshasha in Zaire turned out to be HIV positive when tested, according to the CDC. According to Laurie Garrett (1994), the CDC lost this blood sample and the positive test results were never confirmed by anyone else. The HIV that researchers claimed the blood of a sailor from Manchester, U.K., who died of AIDS-like symptoms in 1959, when tested it had was tainted with the modern virus, and a Saint Louis teenager who died in the 60's of AIDS-like symptoms the HIV virus was never found in his blood, the CDC say if either of them had died from Aids, they had a variety that is not known today, that has died off or evolved into a more modern form).
*The 1912 Olympics were the last games that gave out gold medals made entirely of gold. Absolute pure gold, is so soft, it can be moulded on your hands.. okay if you get fed up with it and want something else round your neck!!! On a more serious note I think that well used fact should be phrased differently.
*In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette
*More than 20 million seahorses are harvested each year for folk medicinal purposes. The world seahorse population has dropped 70 per cent in the past 10 years.
*It takes 20,000 light bulbs to make the Eiffel Tower sparkle at night and there are 2,500,000 rivets holding it together; the total weight of the tower is 10,100 tons. They use 60 tons of paint each repainting campaign, every 7 years in it's entirety. 1,665 steps in the East pillar take you to the top, the hieght to the top of the flage pole is 312m, if including the antennas it is 324 m.
*According to research women are enticed to buy more if they hear the clicking of heels on the floor ~ I wonder??!
*In Aztec mythology, a pantheon of 400 rabbit gods known as Centzon Totochtin, led by Ometotchtli or Two Rabbit, represented fertility, parties, and drunkenness.
*Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine of Margret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind' was originally named Pansy.
*In ancient China, criminals who attacked travellers had their noses cut off.
*In the early days of film making, the people who worked on the sets were called movies. The films were called motion pictures.
*Hyperpolysyllabicomania is a fondness for big words.
*The first genuine French kiss in a Hollywood movie was between Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood in the film "Splendor In The Grass". (allegedly)
*The Great Barrier Reef is composed of roughly 3,000 individual reefs, 900 islands stretching for 2,600 kilometres and has more than 1,500 species of fish living on it.
*Tottenham Hotspur didn't have a single player sent off in a Football League match between October 27th 1928 and December 4th 1965.
*The words moonbeam, generous & to champion were all invented by Shakespeare. Some myth .. some fact. There are 200 plus words that you will see scattered around claiming "invented by Shakespeare". These words were not all invented by Shakespeare but the earliest citations for them in the OED from Shakespeare.
*If you suffer from geophagia then you have a compulsive urge to eat soil.
*The African baobab tree (adansonia digitata) blossom opens only to moonlight and it is pollinated by bats .. the fruit bats.
*Clint Eastwood's roll of Dirty Harry was turned down by Paul Newman, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra.
*According to sales, 17,000 individual 'smarties' are eaten every minute in the UK. (2006)
*The life of an eyelash is about 6 weeks.
*Iceland, Europe's second largest island following Great Britain, boasts of having the world's oldest 'active' parliamentary body, Althing, which first met in 930AD.
*The Turkish football club, Galatasaray, has an A for every other letter.
*The tongue of a mature Blue Whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire adult elephant.
*The study, which tested telephones, desks, water coolers, doorknobs, and toilet seats, compiled 7,000 samples from major centers across the country. What they found, was that while phones ranked highest in bacteria levels, the office desk was a close second.
*In England during World War I, many German names and titles were changed and given more English-sounding names, including the royal family's from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Kaiser Wilhelm II countered this by jokingly saying that he was off to see a performance of 'The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.'
*Both turdoid and turdine mean "belonging to the family turdus," Turdus musicus is the song thrush & Turdus viscivorus is the mistletoe thrush.
*Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly; with a huge 985 known species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species.
*January is National Soup Month in the United States, January is the seasonal equivalent to July in the Southern Hemisphere; & on Jan 14th, 90% of New Year resolutions will be broken!
*You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown and you use an average of 17 muscles for a smile, and they say every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
*Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms in the first 14 nestling days of their life and that is not even their main food on the menu (14 feet a day is wrong) But parent robins make around 100 food visits to the nest every day!
*The first man to die during planning & construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction. December 20, 1922 with J.G. Tierney a Bureau of Reclamation employee who was part of a geological survey and drowned when he fell from a barge. Exactly 13 years later, in 1935, his son Patrick W. Tierney, fell to his death from an intake tower.
* You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.
*The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700.
*Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air.
*A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday.
*There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people.
*Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music.
*Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th.
*One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!

30 Useless Facts

BigLad140 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:19:00 +0000

1. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.

2. Blondes have more hair than dark haired people do.

3. Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films.

4. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

5. Bees kill more people a year than sharks do.

6. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.

7. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

8. Brazil is the only country to have played in every World Cup soccer tournament.

9. Bulls are colorblind, it is the motion of the cape which angers them.

10. Babe Ruth kept a lettuce leaf under his hat to keep cool during a game.

11. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

12. Cards may not be played in the street with a Native American.

13. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.

14. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.

15. China has more English speakers than the United States.

16. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

17. Cheese is the oldest of all man-made foods.

18. Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.

19. Bill Clinton is the only President ever to be elected twice without ever receiving 50% of the popular vote. He had 43 percent in 1992 and 49 percent in 1996.

20. Children grow faster in the springtime.

21. By the time a child finishes elementary school she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television.

22. A healthy human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.

23. Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem. They are actually giant herbs of the same family as lilies, orchids and palms.

24. Casanova wore condoms made of linen.

25. A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.

26. Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

27. A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.

28. Barbers are forbidden by law from shaving a man's chest in Omaha, Nebraska.

29. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.

30. A kangaroo can jump up to 3 meters high and leap up to 8 meters.